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?

I think the theory is that processes tend to run fairly regularly, so if you’re up to something dodgy you might be able to hide it for one week but less likely to be able to hide it for two weeks!

We haven't had a holiday for six or seven years 🙁 but before that 2 weeks would have been normal yes. But then we didn't have any other time off in the year apart from Christmas closures and Bank hols.
You sound cross OP. Your use of 'half a month' and 'just walk out of a job' seem quite loaded? Has someone pissed you off at work?

I have to take two weeks in a row at least once a year, last year I even did it twice (Summer and October).

if you need more than two weeks you have to apply with very good reasons.

Our main holiday is always two weeks away.

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.

If an employer/workplace can’t cope for 2 weeks then that’s their problem and not the employees who’s taken annual leave.

I wouldn’t want to work anywhere where the company frowns upon 2 weeks leave. Very toxic culture. We work to live, not live to work.

Perfectly normal and insisted on where I work, so people get a proper rest. DH works in finance, and as others have said, he has to take two weeks at least once a year for fraud prevention.

My company asks you to take two weeks together in the summer block.

Presumably the leave is booked in advance and the person finishes up jobs and hands over on their last day, rather than just “walking out”

YABU

2 weeks is perfectly normal

I tend to only take a week or week and a half at a time but only because I prefer to spread my holiday over the year and I don’t go on long haul holidays

Hiya IANA HR bod or a forensic accountant or anything but I understand that people who are habitually/regularly skimming their employer don't take leave because the plot might be uncovered in their absence. There are cases most years where the secretary of the playgroup or admin person at the car showroom gets caught faking invoices blah blah. In fact wasn't there a high profile very high level NHS trtust accountant caught dipping in the pot a while ago? So the short answer is, yes, a method of fraud prevention.

That's really interesting! Never thought of that before. Thanks for taking trouble to explain.

Strange post.
Round my way the last week in July and first week in August is commonly know as factory fortnight when the big car manufacturers shut down.

Are you American?
Two weeks is normal. I'm more or less obliged to take two weeks during the quiet time.

I am taking 3 weeks this summer - did the same last year. I just about decompress in the final week.

I get 6 weeks holiday plus BH and can buy another 5 days' leave so they better suck up the staffing issues. They don't pay us market rates so i better get my holidays uninterrupted...

Seems normal to me! I go away for two weeks next week.

Have you been asked to cover for a colleague for two weeks? 😂

Yabu

Are you an employer?

Normal to take two weeks IME.

Two weeks is very normal. I used to take three weeks occasionally when I went to visit family in Australia

I'm self-employed now but I always close for two weeks at Christmas, ten days over Easter and two weeks every summer.

We tend to only do a week in the summer so that we have plenty of AL to use at other times of the year for other holidays (Easter or half term) as well as long weekends away etc. But taking a two week summer holiday is very common and completely fine as far as I’m concerned.

It's normal. Three might be a stretch.

Two weeks is normal. This year I am taking three, one in July and two in August. Can't wait for them.

Totally normal, people work to live. Are you the employer?

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

This is such a strange attitude, your employer doesn't own you and if business will grind to a halt without one of the workers then there are bigger problems afoot. It's perfectly normal to take two weeks (or more) off in one go, and that was the norm when I was growing up in the late 80s too. You seem to think people's time off work should be limited - so you are saying you don't think people should ever take a long haul trip?

Weird thread.

It's absolutely normal. Your language around it is not.