How late is too late for annual leave?

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Trying not to be a CF here but has anyone ever booked it the same week?

AIBU?

Yes. All the time, but I know my work don’t care so long as I don’t have meetings and there is cover.

Perfectly normal where I work to announce you want tomorrow off, or fancy next week off.

Depends where you work and what's normal for your team. My staff request it the week before sometimes.
You can ask, just be prepared that it may not be agreed.

I’ve done it the day before, taken a half day while in the office. Your office should have a policy, my current place asks for 2 weeks notice fornholidays but will grant it normally up to a day before at managers discretion.

Short notice is fine at my work... if it’s just a day or so, last minute week off probably wouldn’t be received so well.

As long as it doesn’t clash with other people leaving it short staffed it’s fine.

I ask my team for at least the amount of time they want off as warning, but if they had a great deal and had nothing they couldn’t finish or couldn’t wait I’d let them have it sooner.

The policy where I work is that you must give at least twice as much notice as the time you want off.
So a half day must have 24 hours notice but a two week holiday needs a month

Totally depends on your workplace.
Will they be able to get cover for you at short notice or manage with a man down for the time you're away?
Do you have any duties that can't easily be done by most other employees?
Are they generally very flexible?

Rule of thumb is twice the time you want off, usually.

Yes it's twice the amount of time you want off where I work too

Minimum 28 days in my work place as the on call Rota is done every 28 days.

Totally depends on your job. My DH could take off the afternoon if he decided in the morning. I need six weeks notice as I have patients booked in up to that far ahead.

At my work you can book leave up until the day before as long as there isn't anything major going on.

Depends on the workload. If I’m not leaving anyone in the lurch I’m off 🏖

It's pretty normal in my team to ask very last minute - day before or even day of - if work is covered etc. Depends what your team is like and whether there are rules about it!

No, because we are given a deadline for booking our summer holiday, usually around February/March.

We are expected to be responsible enough to know if we can take time off and can take whenever we want, so I could decide to take tomorrow and the next day off without approval 5 mins before I leave the office if I really needed to and I knew anything I was working on would be covered ok.

Anything a week or longer needs approval before I go as it's a whole company policy, I enter time off in hr system and manager gets an email and clicks on approved without any checking. If it was a short notice week id message her to ask to approve for me, she would assume id rearranged my workload.

On the other hand if I had a project go live in 6 months time (that I couldnt move) it would be tough to justify planned time off.

I have to give 8 weeks regardless of the length of time for standard annual leave.

Perfectly normal where I work to announce you want tomorrow off, or fancy next week off.

^This

At my work it depends how long you are taking off. A month's notice is usually required for a week off, 3 months for 2 weeks, over 2 weeks requires special permission (very international company so lots of people go to see family on other side of the world for several weeks, in practice if notice is given it's not a problem). But for a day I could call up in the morning because lets be realistic, most people ask for a day off because the boiler has gone, or they have a poorly child, or some other last minute emergency.

At my work it's acceptable to ask for tomorrow off, or a to ask for a half day in the morning. I could go in tomorrow and ask for next week off with no problem as long as I've got enough leave.

In theory we’re supposed to give a week’s notice. In practice, as long as it doesn’t take us over the maximum number of people allowed leave at the same time, then it isn’t an issue.

Most of us have been known to decide mid morning that we feel like a half day at least once.

No notice for me, other than for very rare important due dates for projects
I'm responsible for organising my own time during the year - but I live in Germany.

I gave notice of extending my booked 3-week summer hols to 3.5 weeks at 5pm on what I suddenly decided was the day before hols start - so just EMailed my boss, since he'd already gone home.

For 1 week hols, I've EMailed on the morning that I suddenly decided was the start of the holiday

I am extremely jealous! My work have just asked for holiday bookings up to April 2020!

My work have just asked for holiday bookings up to April 2020

Wonder if we have the same employer