This could come in handy!
Image via Pixabay.comSometimes it feels like you can blitz through all our annual leave in the first few months of the year. Then come October and November, you're left with a long slog going into the winter months.
Want to make the most of your leave in 2022?
There is a way to do that.
St Patrick's Day falls on a Thursday this year so if you take Friday 18th March off too, you'll have a nice four day weekend on the cards.
You can then take off another four days at Easter between 19th-22nd April and again between 3rd-6th May, and you'll wind up with nine days off in a row both times.
Image via Pixabay.comThe June Bank Holiday then falls on June 6th but if you take that full week off from 7th - 10th, you'll get another nine days in a row off.
Then when August rolls around, you can do the same trick. By taking August 2nd-5th off, you've another nine day block off while only using up four of your annual leave days.
When October lands (notice a trend here?), you can try the same. By taking November 1st-4th off, you've used just four days of leave but get a nine day break from the workplace.
That stretched out a 21 day annual leave into 49 continuous days off. Win-win!
Now do bear in mind that you may want to keep a few annual leave days in your back pocket for Christmas 2022. Maybe you can swap out one of the days around the May or June Bank Holiday for a longer Christmas break.
Happy holiday planning!
