How to double your holiday entitlement using your bank holidays 2019

Revealed: EXACTLY how to maximise your annual leave in 2019 by booking strategically around bank holidays – including the seven days to take that will give you SIXTEEN off work

  • Some crafty calendar work could see you double your time off in 2019 
  • Booking strategically around bank holidays and weekends is the trick  
  • You could book seven days off next Christmas and get a 16-day unbroken stretch 

Everybody’s focused on Christmas right now, but you might be wise to take a moment to reflect on your diary for next year. 

The team at Instant Offices has laid out a perfectly planned calendar for office workers, setting out exactly which annual leave days to book in 2019 in order to maximise their time out of the office. 

By booking strategically around next year’s bank holidays, employees can turn the average holiday allowance of 26 into consecutive stretches of time off lasting a combined 59 days.    

And some crafty calendar work come next Christmas could net you a whopping 16-day unbroken stretch that uses up just seven from your annual leave allowance – but you’ll have to get in their quickly to beat your colleagues…

A strategic calendar shows how workers can maximise their holidays in the new year and help boost their work-life balance, turning 26 days into 59 days

Taking advantage of the 2019 bank holidays, listed above, employees can make the most of their holiday entitlement

Instant Offices advises kicking off your year by booking the 2nd to the 4th of January off, which requires three days of annual leave, but will get you a six-day stretch off, thanks to the New Year’s Day bank holiday. 

Similarly, booking just four days off between April 15th and 18th – ahead of the four day Easter weekend – will bag you a total of 10 consecutive days off. 


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The bank holidays in May provide more prime opportunities to boost your holiday. 

Booking four days on from May 7th to 10th will give you a nine day stretch out of the office, and another four days from 28th to 31st will, again, allow you a nice long nine day break – making for a very restful month. 

Simply by taking advantage of the bank holidays, and booking off the extra days sandwiched between weekends, employees can enjoy a staggering two months of leave next year

And those suffering with summertime sadness need only book four days off around the August bank holiday – from 27th to the 30th, to take advantage of another nine day stretch.

Rounding up the year with extra cheer, booking seven specific days off over the festive period – the 23rd and 24th, the 27th, the 30th and 31st, and January 2nd and 3rd – to will land you a merry 16 days off. 

If you successfully book those days, you’ll leave the office on December 20th and won’t return until January 6th.   

How to maximise Your Holiday Leave in 2019 

January 2019

Take a 6-day holiday by booking 3 days off

(1 Jan – 6 Jan)

April

Take a 10-day holiday by booking 4 days off

(13 Apr – 22 Apr)

May

Take a 9-day holiday by booking 4 days off

(4 May – 12 May)

May/June

Take a 9-day holiday by booking 4 days off

(25 May – 2 June)

August/Sept

Take a 9-day holiday by booking 4 days off

(24 Aug – 1 Sept)

December 2019 – January 2020

Take a 16-day holiday by booking 7 days off

(21 Dec – 5 Jan) 

Instant Offices shared its advice after a survey by PaymentSense showed that 59 per cent of workers across the UK say their work negatively impacts day-to-day life.  

And with a quarter of Brits working more than forty hours a week, workers still have a long way to go to reach a healthy work-life balance.  

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