2025 is still a while away but there's already advice on how best to take time off during the year.
While I'm certain that you are a model employee and a paragon of diligence in the workplace, everyone deserves a day off from time to time and you might as well make the most of it.
The best way to do that is to make sure that your time off is nestled comfortably between weekends and bank holidays to give you as long a consecutive time out of the office as possible.
With that in mind one bloke reckons he can turn 29 days of annual leave into a honking massive 64 days off.
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By picking the days to book off with precision you could really boost your holiday time and put your feet up for a proper rest, and of course return to work invigorated, refreshed and ready to get back to it.
TikToker Charlie laid out his 2025 calendar which you might want to make note of when planning your own work holidays.
Sadly for those of us who don't get bank holidays off this system isn't really going to work, but for you lot who do go forth and enjoy yourselves.
For Charlie's system to work you'd need to take most of your time off in April and May, with you booking eight days off apiece.
Your first dates to book off would be 2 and 3 January with the expectation that you'd be getting New Year's Day off and then hit the weekend to begin 2025 with no work for the first five days.
The next time you'd be taking off would be April and you'd be spending a whopping 16 days out of work, provided you work somewhere that lets you be off for that long.
You'd be booking off the dates between 14 and 17 April as well as 22 to 25 April to capitalise on the Easter holidays, so you'd leave work on 11 April and not be back until the 28th of the month.
Back at work for just a week before your next holiday, you'd then be booking off 6 to 9 May and then 27 to 30 May to ride those bank holidays for all they're worth.
As penance for those two months where you're largely not in work you're then in all of June and July, before booking off the last week in August because there's yet another bank holiday.
From the end of August and the closing of summer itself it's a long slog until the Christmas period itself as you book 22 to 24 December and 29 to 31 of the final month of the year to make the most of the festive season and 'betwixtmas', which is the time in between Christmas and New Year.
By doing this your working year ends on 19 December and you'll have plenty of time to do all the Christmas shopping, eat turkey sandwiches and watch The Muppet Christmas Carol as much as you like.
Joe Harker