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Holiday policy

What are we trying to achieve with our holiday policy?

A rested team, all year around: this means people taking holidays throughout the year to be able to do our best work. It also means spreading holidays around so that we don’t burn out from long stretches without a break.
Holiday policy
Name
Description
1
Holiday year
1st January to 31 December
2
Holiday allowance
(including public holidays)
Everyone will be allocated a total of 34 days which includes public holidays
Everyone gets an additional holiday day for each year of their employment
3
Public holidays
From 2023, bank holidays in UK and India will no longer be booked by default. This is because one of the QOps principles is that team members have ownership of their RG and that team members can decide whether to take the standard bank holidays or take time off at another point in time when it suits them.
4
Tracking holiday balance
You can always track your holiday balance from this
sheet
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.
This sheet is updated in real time from holiday bookings you create and update in Resource Guru.
5
Carry forward allowance
You can carry forward a maximum of 8 days. Any days more than 8 will lapse.
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Holiday policy updates
Date
Title
Description
1
Jan 1, 2024
Holiday Encashment
From January 2024, holiday encashment will stop, you will however be allowed to carry over your holiday. If you decide to leave us and you haven’t used up your holiday carryover, you will be paid this out with your final salary payment.
2
Dec 20, 2023
Holiday Carryover
From 2024 onwards, you will be able to carry over 8 days of holiday into the next year.
3
Dec 2, 2022
Additional day for each year of employment
Currently the additional day for each year of employment is being added at the start of the holiday year (1st of January) if it’s been 1 year since employment
From the 1st of January 2023, the additional day will be added to the holiday balance from the anniversary date rather than at the start of the following holiday year
4
Oct 10, 2022
2023 - bank holidays no longer booked by default
Pre-2023, at the start of the new calendar year, all UK bank holidays were booked off for the whole UK team by default.
In India, the days that were booked off by default were New Year’s Day, Republic Day, Holi, Gandhi Jayanti, Dussehra, Diwali, Boxing Day, Christmas Day, unless they fall on a weekend. You could choose to book other days throughout the year.
Except for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day, you could later decide if you’d rather work that day so you can build up your holiday allowance.
For the full list of bank holidays previously booked by default, see
Public holidays
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5
Dec 16, 2021
2021 COVID roll forward of holidays + encashment
With 2021 being another COVID year, everyone will be able to either carry forward up to 10 days of holidays maximum, or encash up to 10 days of holidays.
From 2022, the total number of days that you can either carry forward or encash will be limited to 5 - this is so that we have a rested team with holidays taken throughout the year.
6
Oct 19, 2020
Change in holiday allowance definition
In the UK, instead of 26 days + public holidays, you will now be allocated 34 days instead.
In India, instead of 27 days + public holidays, you will be allocated 34 days instead.
There are no changes to the total holidays you are eligible for.
The rules will apply in 2021 for the UK team and immediately for the India team.
7
Jun 1, 2020
2020 COVID roll forward of holidays
Due to COVID19, we are going to relax our holiday carry forward policy. Everyone will be able to carry 10 days of holidays at maximum.
We are mandating that everyone takes at least least 8 days before the end September (pro-rated if you’ve started part year through the year) to reduce burnout and to help the company with future planning.
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