Do your work colleagues actually know it's Easter this weekend and that Friday and Monday are Bank Holidays?

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After some recent emails and conversations, I think some people just don't know. Maybe they are just out of the loop on these things.

Nobody in the office with school age children, but everyone fully aware of the impending long weekend.

Penny only dropped for me last week when my wife and colleagues said. I told a new worker I'm supporting today about the Friday she was very surprised

It had completely passed me by and now I'm not sure if I'm working Friday or not. Live in Scotland but work for a UK wide charity and get random bank holidays. We get the early (to me) August bank holidays and not the English bank holiday weekend. Gonna have to find out tomorrow what's happening Friday.

Well this could be an interesting conversation

https://www.gov.scot/publications/bank-holidays/

I can guarantee someone won’t have realised, same person will be fuming that Tesco is closed on Sunday

I take your point, but the post is delivered on Good Friday. not Easter Monday.

Its not but a lot of the English based businesses and institutions take it eg universities, civil service etc.

It's the first decent break after Christmas for those of us who don't have kids or who have grown up.

Depends where you are, maybe? Local to me, most office workers get bank holidays as "floating days" and hardly anyone takes Easter off, unless it coincides with time they would be taking off for school holidays anyway. Often, schools are even in on Easter Monday.

At work, we wouldn't think twice about arranging meetings on Easter friday/monday, and that goes for everywhere I have ever worked, including clients.

The Scottish govt disagrees with you - Good Friday IS a bank holiday in Scotland. It's Easter Monday that isn't.

https://www.mygov.scot/scotland-bank-holidays

Every end of December I get a few weeks off. One of the things I do is set out the bank holidays for the year in my new diary. So i always know when the bank holidays are, yes, and know that this one and dec 25th are related to religious holidays, I don't know if any of the rest of them are. Upthread someone called this a christian country, I can see it historically but not currently.

I am not Scottish but the Scottish Government seem to think Good Friday is a Bank Holiday

Scottish bank holiday dates - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

We know because it's one of our most lucrative weekends.

Good Friday is listed as a bank holiday in the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 (and that bit is still in force as far as I can see) so not sure how long ago your job was?

You think only people with kids know that they have two holidays coming? Bizarre. Lots of people childfree people will have plans!

Really?

It's a Bank Holiday.

It's in addition to annual leave.

@HussellRobbs No, that's not what I said. Only my colleagues who have children seem to remember that it's Easter. Most of my team are childfree and two of them have tried to set up meetings on Friday today.

I disagree with lot of the what the Scottish Government say

The operative word being bank holiday. It's generally business as usual for the high street.

Apart from anything else it doesn't feel any quieter, not like Christmas.

Yes - everywhere I have worked has added the days for bank holidays as extra annual leave, to be taken whenever.

It is because locally, we have lots of regional offices of companies based in England, but we are in Scotland so our bank holidays are often different. They can't force us to take English holidays, they don't want us all off when they are in, so the solution is to let everyone take the leave when they want. Suits me!

I'm always tempted to go to the bank on a bank holiday

I don't want to sound rude - but you agreed with a post that said that Good Friday is not a Bank Holiday in Scotland - and according to the Scottish Government, it is.

Businesses may still be open - but it is still an official Bank Holiday.

The Easter weekend is usually in the middle of the school break, and for us this year its at the beginning so even for those with kids its confusing this year I think.
I have just had to rearrange a few meetings on Friday for the week after next (as I'm off next week) and it's a pain because it's meetings I wanted boxed off before the end of the month, but it's too short notice to bring them forward.
My own fault but annoying

A few people in my office hadn't remembered, many also didn't know it is clock change over the weekend too.

That would suit me as well - I would much prefer the extra annual leave on top of my usual allowance to be taken whenever. '

I suppose one issue could be Christmas - when people do want to be off.