Looking to gather some feedback on how holiday is managed in terms of maximum time off.
Everywhere I have worked to date, including financial and hospitality companies, have had a two week policy. Does anyone allow more than this and how do you manage it?
Like Keith, I prefer not to be prescriptive. In practice, people rarely seek to take off more than two weeks in a single block and, when they do, it can be discussed as and when.
However, when I worked in an organization that did place restrictions on the amount of holiday that could be taken in a block, it was a max of two weeks for the first two years of employment, and then a max of three weeks after that. However, there was a specific paragraph that, for major life events, longer periods of holiday that were permitted by the policy would be considered as long as plenty of notice was given. This came in handy a couple of times: the first was when a long-serving employee was getting married and she was allowed a week off before the wedding to supervise the preparations and three weeks for a big, exciting honeymoon; the second was when another employee had spent years saving up to take his whole family on the Hajj to Mecca and we gave him the whole month.
When it's for events like this, giving the extra holiday felt like the the whole business got to participate in these life-changing experiences by proxy.
Like Keith, I prefer not to be prescriptive. In practice, people rarely seek to take off more than two weeks in a single block and, when they do, it can be discussed as and when.
However, when I worked in an organization that did place restrictions on the amount of holiday that could be taken in a block, it was a max of two weeks for the first two years of employment, and then a max of three weeks after that. However, there was a specific paragraph that, for major life events, longer periods of holiday that were permitted by the policy would be considered as long as plenty of notice was given. This came in handy a couple of times: the first was when a long-serving employee was getting married and she was allowed a week off before the wedding to supervise the preparations and three weeks for a big, exciting honeymoon; the second was when another employee had spent years saving up to take his whole family on the Hajj to Mecca and we gave him the whole month.
When it's for events like this, giving the extra holiday felt like the the whole business got to participate in these life-changing experiences by proxy.
