To think 2 weeks is an unusually long summer holiday?

[PrettyLittleCryer]

How long do you take off on holiday if you go away over summer - particularly if you work full time?

I think half a month is a long time to expect to just walk out of a job and them to carry on without you.

But is that what most people take?

riesenrad

Goodness three is even worse. That doesn't leave you with much left for other things in the year.

It depends on how many other weeks holiday are available. In my time in Denmark, we had 6 weeks holiday plus a number of Public Holidays, so plenty of time to do other things. People I'm still in contact with there now have 7 weeks off each year.

It's fine to strike if you're going to be paid anyway

Er.... I don't think you understand strikes

Wrong thread! No idea how that happened.

I rarely take two weeks off at once as prefer to spread holidays out, but two weeks at a time is perfectly normal. I always take two weeks off at Christmas.

What’s staff turnover like OP? Burnout and general satisfaction?

@riesenrad Same applies to financial services jobs, I simply wouldn't do it. Given WFH I don't know how they can force that anymore, if you log in from home what are they going to do? Do you have to sign something to say you won't touch emails under any circumstances during that time even if someone contacts you urgently? It seems highly unlikely to me, given the sector and its expectations of working hours

Your remote login key is deactivated whilst you're on holiday, you can't login during those 2 weeks even if you wanted to. No checking emails, nothing.

Work to live not live to work. Two weeks is an absolutely standard length of summer holiday and well you know it.

Id quite honestly be sad if this was my attitude. If you died tomorrow they’d be interviewing for your replacement the next day. Do not let work consume you.

Sad sad sad.

The only person I knew who never took holidays was a massive fraudster and ended up in prison

The last time I had more than a week off work was 5/6 years ago when I was off sick after an operation.

Possibly not. Do striking train drivers or university teachers lose their pay for the days on which they are on strike? Genuine question.

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.

We often go for 2 weeks. One year I had horrible vertigo for the first week so I still had one week of holiday to enjoy 🤣

@ByJingoes yes they absolutely loose pay. My partner works for network rail and will loose 2 days pay this week (3rd day he is off anyway)

2 weeks holiday is very average in the UK

Where I live (Sweden) it is the law that you must be allowed to take 4 weeks between June and August and employers may have to buy weeks back

I have just over 3 weeks away every summer (in normal times), I'm married to a teacher but I'm not one myself. I have enough hols for other breaks too, my holiday allowance is pretty good so it works fine. My parents always took us away for 3 weeks too so it's pretty normal to me. Spending time away with my children is really important, they won't be little forever so my 3 weeks plus at summer will continue.

When I was doing management training not taking holidays was always mentioned as a potential red flag for fraud as the fraudster wants to be there to shift money around different accounts

Also in recent years taking holiday entitlement is regarded as important for employee health and wellness so that people get a proper break

Previous job you could book up to two weeks off just with no clashes with other critical team members.

More than two weeks needed additional approval and in some cases the rest of the team had to say they were fine with it, but never known it to be rejected

Absolutely standard in the UK, most employers encourage it if anything, gets a chunk of your annual leave out of the way, much better than everyone saving leave and all wanting to be off at the end of the leave year.

When my children (now adults), we regularly, annually went away for 3wks long haul as we could add our flexitime built up hours to AL. I worked in the Civil Service and it was allowed and ExH was a consultant so he took on contracts around our holidays.

That went out the window when ExH got a different job. Great memories of USA, India, Canada ( he's Canadian but came here aged 10). Greek island wandering.

I've now not been abroad for 3 yrs and so looking forward to going The canaries for 3 weeks in the winter. Partner and I both are now self employed so can plan ahead to limit the affect on the business.

Businesses should be able to cover two week holidays as they're the norm. One week and you're only just relaxing before you have to pack up again and never get to do / see all that you want to.

In my team it would be rare for anyone not to take two full weeks off in summer at some point. I normally take two weeks in July and a week in September.

I work a very strange FT shift pattern

It allows one month off due to a combination of booked holiday & time off shift

Best perk of the job

Enjoyed long haul holidays to multiple places pre covid

I take the whole of July off. Every year. Unfortunately all my customers are wise to this, so June is always mental lol

To add, we get great deals on holidays avoiding all the festival & school holidays

We generally don't holiday during the school holidays

4 weeks in summer and and two weeks used at various other times.

This is idle curiosity on my part - but how on earth does taking two weeks together protect against fraud?!