Each year, HR Hero Line surveys its readers about what days they will be off at the holidays and in the coming year. Most of you will have a paid holiday later this month on both Thanksgiving Day and the day after, while about 36% of you will get off on Thanksgiving Day only. Christmas is on Friday this year, and most of you will be off on Christmas Day and about 40% will be off on Christmas Eve, as well. The following week, nearly everyone will be off on New Year’s Day, but only 12% will be off on New Year’s Eve.
So since most of you will not be at the office, HR Hero Line will be taking some time off, as well. There will be no issue of HR Hero Line on Nov. 27. There will also be no HR Hero Line issue on Dec. 25 or Jan. 1, 2010. Instead, we will have an issue on Dec. 30.
You can read all the survey results about office holiday schedules for the rest of this year and for 2010. In addition to the answers we listed, you can click on “Other” for some of the questions and see what your fellow HR professionals wrote. Our favorite nontraditional office holiday listed in the “Other” section was “first day of hunting season.”