Annual Holidays

25Friday is required by law to have an annual leave schedule that must be completed every year until April 30th the latest, therefore, we require everyone to submit and get approval for their vacation periods before April so that we have enough time to make any necessary corrections.

  • It is important that employees take regular breaks from their duties through annual leave.
  • The holiday leave year operates from 1 January to 31 December.
  • Employees are expected to take their annual leave entitlement within the leave year period.
  • It’s expected that all employees submit their holidays for the year on HiBob as we are required by law to have the “holidays plan” before April 15th.
  • If you have leave days that carried over from a previous year, you are required by law to making use of them before April 30th.
  • More than 2 weeks must be approved by the Partner and 25Friday.

As a general rule, 25Friday will not limit your choice of when to take your available leave days, however we require everyone to coordinate within their respective teams to ensure that:

  • Leave days are communicated with enough time in advance to allow for proper planning;
  • The client also agrees with the proposed dates.

If for some reason you end up not taking all of the planned leave days, you can carry over up to 2 leave days into the next year (unless special circumstances exist - if this is the case, reach out to your team coach).

Extra Leave Days

As a thank you for staying with 25Friday, we have increased the default number of leave days to 23 from January 2021 onwards which will accrue an additional day of leave per year of tenure (since 2021) up to a maximum of 28 yearly leave days.

Examples:

  • Sílvia joined in March 2021:

    • She gets 23 days of holidays in 2022, since in January 1st her tenure was less than 1 year.
    • She will get 24 days in 2023.

  • David joined in January 2023:

    • He gets 23 days of holidays in 2024, since in January 1st his tenure was less than 1 year.
    • He will get 24 days in 2025.

Note that even though we call them leave days, because they will be paid and you can pick the day, these additional days are not a part of your working contract and are not applicable in case of resignation for example.

Formulas:

REFERENCE_DATE=DATE(2021; 1; 1)
START_OF_YEAR=DATE(YEAR(TODAY());1;1)

RELEVANT_DATE=MAX(REFERENCE_DATE, START_DATE)
TENURE=YEAR(START_OF_YEAR)-YEAR(START_DATE)+(MONTH(START_OF_YEAR)-MONTH(START_DATE))/12+(DAY(START_OF_YEAR)-DAY(START_DATE§))/(12*31)

EXTRA_TIME_OFF=MAX(0;MIN(5;FLOOR(TENURE;1)))