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?

Completely normal to take two weeks in a row off, as others have pointed out it would show an employer as chronically understaffed if it couldn’t cope with someone being off for that length of time.

I’d expect in some jobs there could be a limit to how many employees who can be off at once, and if leave of 3+ weeks impacted on the ability of others to take leave there may need to be discussion.

Also, in companies like mine with annual leave entitlement of nearing 40 days and a 5 day working week means taking no more than a week off or using days up here and there can have a far greater business impact across a year (though nothing to stop that either, we are very much in the camp of “it’s your leave, use it as you see fit” in most cases

Two weeks is normal.

Normal here

2 weeks is a perfectly standard holiday length. The 'normal' summer holiday length.

A week is a short summer holiday.

2 weeks is completely normal.

I don't often take two weeks together as prefer to spread my time off and also due to staffing issues. However I do really feel like I've had a break when I've been off two full weeks.

But I would look poorly on a workplace that actively thought two weeks leave at the same time was excessive.

Two weeks?! 3 weeks is common here, as well as 3 months unpaid sabbaticals.

In my last job, most of the longer term members of staff took 2 weeks off in the summer. Even my daughter’s nursery closes for two weeks over 12th July, and I think it used to be pretty common for some businesses here to do the same.

I took 10 days off for my wedding in October 2020, but never taken 2 weeks off at a time. I prefer spreading my holiday out more in the year and I’ve usually started new jobs in the summer so haven’t accrued annual leave yet.

Normal, especially if you go on a holiday that is beyond Europe ... Asia, South America, USA, Australia.
I'm from the southern hemisphere and usually take 3 weeks off to go back and visit family.
Must be really normal for families with school age children who have 6 weeks over summer.

2 weeks is usual. I take 3 over the summer. 1 at the start of the hols and 2 at the end.

I would also add that some employers insist on a block of two weeks leave - people reluctant to take leave can be a red flag in terms of fraud

I'm away for the whole of July. The world isn't going to end without me.

I take 3 and that's completely standard. Many of my colleagues are off 4 weeks. One colleague is off from tomorrow until mid-August! It's nice. Because so many people are away in my sector there's generally much less to do, and I don't return to a full inbox because most colleagues have been away on holiday too.

I don’t care what happens at work when I’m not there. We are all expendable at work as I found out after 15 years with a company. I take 2 weeks but only go away for 7-10 days

I take 3 in July which is great! Thankfully the law doesnt agree with you that annual leave is "walking out of a job".

Completely ordinary in my line of work, even outwith the summer holidays. It’s better for staff morale & performance if they’re able to take longer breaks, really.

Most people where I work take 2 weeks over summer, week over Christmas, week at Easter and then the rest dotted about.

In my company nobody covers your work, so nobody takes more than a week. They often log in during annual leave too😯

YABU!!

half a month is a long time...

Half a month?? Who on earth calls it "half a month"?!!

"How long are you away for? A week, 10 days?"
"No - half a month"
😂😂

My main holiday this year is October and I’m off for 3 weeks as I’m going on a cruise then a city break at the destination. Work are fine with it.

I’ll be taking 2 weeks, back for a month then another 2 weeks over the summer. A colleague once took 4 weeks to travel across Australia, but that was in winter. I had no idea it was unusual.

We would usually do that but in two blocks of one week. We tried two solid weeks last year and everyone drove each other daft. A week at a time is blessing enough for all of us together. Might be different if we id not have kids, more relaxing.

If my employer can't cope without me for two weeks I am not being paid enough.

Are you in America? If not then no, the general expectation is not that work is the centre of the world 360 days per year...