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set their own rules on holiday, and can choose A five-day week entitles 28 days’ annual
to give more than the legal minimum should leave a year.
they want to.
So, someone working a four-day week
If you switch to a four-day week and keep would be entitled to: 4 days x 5.6 weeks =
the standard 37.5 hour working week (ie. you 22.4 days.
condense 5 days into 4), your employees’
holiday allowance won’t change. No sweat. Should work become more flexible?
The pandemic has proved to many businesses
But, if you actually reduce the amount of (that might have previously felt reluctant to
hours your people are working each week, allow their staff to work remotely) that a virtual
you’ll need to re-calculate the holiday they’re workplace can be successful, prompting
entitled to. And here’s how you do it.
calls from many employees to maintain some
Leave allowance is calculated simply by element of remote working in future.
multiplying the number of days worked a And it’s not just employees who are leading
week by 5.6.
the calls; some notable companies have also
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