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xmas 4 day week ?

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comeracing
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xmas 4 day week ?

Post by comeracing »

last xmas a few in our office worked 4 day a week,working 10 hours a day 0530-1530 for example,this giving you an extra day off,im thinking of possibly doing this this year,anybody done this in other offices,is it worth doing ? can you pick your day off or would it have to be next to your original day off for eg,if my day off was a Thursday ,would I have to have a Wednesday or a Friday off.
IcanthelpthewayIam
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Re: xmas 4 day week ?

Post by IcanthelpthewayIam »

comeracing wrote:last xmas a few in our office worked 4 day a week,working 10 hours a day 0530-1530 for example,this giving you an extra day off,im thinking of possibly doing this this year,anybody done this in other offices,is it worth doing ? can you pick your day off or would it have to be next to your original day off for eg,if my day off was a Thursday ,would I have to have a Wednesday or a Friday off.

having the extra day off is good, but unless you are willing to work that day off it does limit the opportunity for overtime for yourself, as for what days off you will get thats down to how its organised in your office
vanman90
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Re: xmas 4 day week ?

Post by vanman90 »

Week 1 mon tue
Week 2 wed thur
Week 3 fri sat
Week 1 mon tue
Week 2 wed thur
Week 3 fri sat
themailman
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Re: xmas 4 day week ?

Post by themailman »

on a similar subject.

can anyone advise what weeks you CAN'T take A/L over Christmas?

It was always the 2 weeks leading up to Christmas in the recent past, now it looks like most of December has been wiped out.
SpacePhoenix
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Re: xmas 4 day week ?

Post by SpacePhoenix »

In MCs it's always been three weeks that are blocked
Stormproof
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Re: xmas 4 day week ?

Post by Stormproof »

themailman wrote:on a similar subject.

can anyone advise what weeks you CAN'T take A/L over Christmas?

It was always the 2 weeks leading up to Christmas in the recent past, now it looks like most of December has been wiped out.
All our A/L has now stopped, so our office has almost 2 months with no one on leave.
So keep on moving, moving, moving your feet
Keep on shuf-shuf-shuffling to this ghost dance beat
Just keep on walking down never ending streets


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IcanthelpthewayIam
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Re: xmas 4 day week ?

Post by IcanthelpthewayIam »

themailman wrote:on a similar subject.

can anyone advise what weeks you CAN'T take A/L over Christmas?

It was always the 2 weeks leading up to Christmas in the recent past, now it looks like most of December has been wiped out.

It all depends on what your office agreed to when working out your annual leave plan last October time, just as last month the annual leave selection for next year should have been decided and the Xmas pressure weeks blocked out where agreed to