UK, more than 10 working days consecutively requires director approval according to the written policy, but I can't imagine it ever being denied or enforced (I have never had or heard of a holiday request being denied at all). We're not allowed to carry days over though, so people do not generally accrue large holiday allowances.
Ask HN: What is your company's maximum vacation (at one time) policy?
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Re: Ask HN: What is your company's maximum vacation (at one time) policy?
#52Sounds illegal in the UK. Workers are legally entitled to have 5.6 weeks ( https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights ). ps. I have a tool to help workers get the longest possible vacation. Am I allowed to publish the link here?
5.6 weeks throughout the year is not incompatible with limits on the consecutive weeks at time though. Three vacations periods a year, each two weeks long, is still six weeks total, both satisfying the minimum number of days you preset here as well as the company limits on vacation length given by the OP.
Is there anything in UK law that prevents businesses from requesting that the 5.6 weeks be spread out throughout the year from their employees?
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#53If you want to increase burnout (and its inevitable resultant churn) in an organisation, capping vacation length sounds like a surefire way to achieve that.
People should be able to do what they want and companies shouldn't be so reliant on one person that they can't take a month or two away, but taking 3-4 spaced out 1-2 week vacations is better for preventing burnout than a single 6 week vacation. According to this article, maximum benefit is achieved at 8 days of vacation https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/opinion/sunday/vacatio...
Would you rather have your employees recharging their batteries multiple times a year, once a year, or one every two years?
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#54Interestingly, in terms of vacation I found banks to be better than technology companies. I have worked with two of them and both had instituted a policy where employees were compelled to take at least 2 weeks of leave. If not, upper management got involved and started asking question about work pressure. My last job was at a technology company. While there was no limit of vacation time, the unsaid rule was to limit…
Those 9 days were upper limit or lower limit?
Re: Ask HN: What is your company's maximum vacation (at one time) policy?
#55Sounds illegal in the UK. Workers are legally entitled to have 5.6 weeks ( https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights ). ps. I have a tool to help workers get the longest possible vacation. Am I allowed to publish the link here?
Re: Ask HN: What is your company's maximum vacation (at one time) policy?
#56Interestingly, in terms of vacation I found banks to be better than technology companies. I have worked with two of them and both had instituted a policy where employees were compelled to take at least 2 weeks of leave. If not, upper management got involved and started asking question about work pressure. My last job was at a technology company. While there was no limit of vacation time, the unsaid rule was to limit…
Those 9 days were upper limit or lower limit?
upper limit.
Re: Ask HN: What is your company's maximum vacation (at one time) policy?
#57UK. No limit. All vacation has manager approval though never heard of it being denied. Also have a various schemes for large amounts of unpaid leave while still returning to your original position.
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#58Sounds illegal in the UK. Workers are legally entitled to have 5.6 weeks ( https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights ). ps. I have a tool to help workers get the longest possible vacation. Am I allowed to publish the link here?
> Am I allowed to publish the link here? Yes. If it's your own work, and it meets the rules, you can post it as a "Show HN" too. https://news.ycombinator.com/show
Thank you! Already posted as "Show HN" some days ago
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#59I work in a place with an "unlimited" vacation policy, your release being discretionary by your manager per your delivery and current work load, etc. However its also been shared that you may only take up to 2 weeks at a time, essentially killing someone's opportunity to work for a while and do an extended euro trip or something. I tend to do 1 week at a time so I get maybe 2 and some odd extended holidays here and there.
Re: Ask HN: What is your company's maximum vacation (at one time) policy?
#60Sounds illegal in the UK. Workers are legally entitled to have 5.6 weeks ( https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights ). ps. I have a tool to help workers get the longest possible vacation. Am I allowed to publish the link here?
When you wrote "help workers get the longest possible vacation" I thought of the trick of padding or extending vacation days. Taking vacation days on both ends of a holiday but not in the middle since they are mandatory days off anyway.
At some companies employees with seniority abuse that trick. They use vacation days before and after statutory holidays so it works out to be one long vacation. They often do this when lower ranks don't have first pick forcing them to use bigger blocks of vacation time. It creates a toxic work environment because everyone knows when a holiday is coming up "you know who" will be gone longer.