How much time do you get off for Christmas?

[AnxiousAnniee]

No reason for me asking really, I'm just curious. All of the jobs I've had I've only ever got a couple of days off (Xmas day and boxing day) but I'm going to be starting a new office job and looking forward to having a bit more time off over Christmas.

I'm interested to know, what is your job/industry and how long is your Christmas break?

Nothing beyond bank hols unless we take holiday, in one job 3 days between Christmas & NY but it was mandatory out of annual leave

It's the biggest perk of my job. University admin. We close from around the 23rd each year, sometimes earlier depending on when Christmas falls and don't reopen until the first working day in January.

Zero. But I'm a nurse

We have global christmas shutdown from christmas eve (or the Friday before if christmas eve is the weekend or Monday) to Jan 2nd ish. We do have to use leave to do this, but its a blissful holiday as there is no other time when everyone is off

Our company shuts down between Xmas and New year. We have to take annual leave but it makes things SO much easier with the kids.

We finish with a half day on the 22nd this year and go back on the 2nd jan. this is in addition to our AL allowance.

Teacher. 2 weeks.

Public sector- technically civil service.We get Christmas Day and Boxing Day and New Years Day- you can apply for more leave but 2 or 3 days at the most is granted over the 2 week period (last year I was given 1). The really irritating thing is that they don't tell you what you are going to get till October/November so can't really book much over Christmas.

Nothing. Although we choose whether we want to work christmas day and boxing day. If you don't do it your colleagues have to so I try to do my fair share over the years.

Not a nurse but same for me! The joys of working for animals in my case😀

We're closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day - we have to use holidays for the rest but we're all expected to work one day each between Xmas and new year so it's fair. I'm working all 3 as I've got no holidays but it falls nicely this year so still get a nice chunk off

I'm an academic. Because the university is closed, we usually get a week off around/between Xmas/New Years, in addition to the bank holidays, so something like the 23rd and returning on the 3rd. This is the standard in higher ed, except for the bare bones facilities staff needed to keep things ticking over. Literally, the buildings shut down, heating turned off, no security there to unlock the doors, and we would get a talking to if we tried to come in. Of course, it doesn't mean people don't work as we work a lot outside of contracted hours, but generally, no meetings scheduled, no emails expected to be responded to, just sort of keep an eye on things in case a student has an emergency. We might get caught up on quieter tasks, but I largely take it completely off and don't open my laptop - as my desire to overwork myself in a performative way is gone after so many years! 😂It makes a big difference as childcare around Christmas is very hard to come by and the days leading up to Christmas are really busy for dh in the work he does.

Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day, we usually finish early on the eves too.

I'm in a new team, one person has to be in each day but we've shared it around. I'm off the week after Christmas.

I work for a University- we are closed between Christmas and New Year and don’t take any annual leave for this. So for example this year we will finish on Friday 22nd and return Tuesday 2nd.

It varies a bit depending on where Christmas falls but including the weekends it is always at least 10 days break.

I work for a charity and we close between Christmas and New Year and are gifted the extra days as annual leave on top of our annual allowance.

I always take additional days too so usually have between 2.5 and 3 full weeks off.

This year I plan to stop on Wednesday 20th December and return on Monday 8th January.

I work in a school so I get the full two weeks off.

We finish 23rd Dec and go back first working day in Jan.

Here in the good old USA you’re only entitled to Christmas Day and New Years Day unless they’re on a weekend, then you don’t get anything.

Due to the nature of my work, I’ve almost always had at least a week, but often 2 weeks. Not always paid though.

Teacher and we typically get three weeks.

We get two weeks off!

We close early on Christmas Eve and go back after the new years bank holiday. We don’t have to take the days off as annual leave so usually a stretch of a week and a bit depending on how the days all fall.
i will then book a few days off beforehand as we host for a lot of people on Christmas Day and I didn’t take anything off before Christmas last year and it almost broke me, dh was really poorly too which didn’t help!

If lucky, one day. Only one housekeeper needs to work on the actual day and one on boxing day but then it's back to normal.

I've never had a JOB (outside of education) where you get any more than the bank holidays off - any more and you're using annual leave.

What industry are you going to be working in OP?

We usually close early on Christmas Eve then go back on the first working day of the new year. It's not contractual though, so we don't find out if we have it until early November usually. Having said that, they've awarded it in 5 of the last 6 years, so... 🤷🏼‍♀️

Zero - support worker in a children's residential care home. It's the one thing about teaching that I miss!