How long are the devs on vacation for?
- Thread starter JamieCA
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Whilst I'm sure there will be a number taking a week or 2 off there will probably be some still working on the non bank holidays, you can tell from the SteamDB info. But generally yes I wouldn't expect much in terms of updates/regular forum replies by the community team.
This year is quite expensive on holidays.
We generally get 20-25 days a year plus the mandatory ones. In this case that's 25th, 26th of December and 1st January. But nearly everyone will take off at least 25th-1st and quite often offices close down completely for that time because there won't be enough staff to make sense opening them. That's basically 8 days, starting and ending mid-week. Various people will decide to extend that one way or another to take complete weeks off. This year it would be a pain to have to work two-day weeks either end of the holiday.but you would have to burn 7 days of annual leave to get both weeks off.
My favourite is when Christmas falls on a Saturday or Sunday. Then the mandatory holidays shift to the the subsequent week-days. You only need to use three days to come back on the 3rd or 4th. You get one complete week and the next Monday off
We generally get 20-25 days a year plus the mandatory ones. In this case that's 25th, 26th of December and 1st January. But nearly everyone will take off at least 25th-1st and quite often offices close down completely for that time because there won't be enough staff to make sense opening them. That's basically 8 days, starting and ending mid-week. Various people will decide to extend that one way or another to take complete weeks off. This year it would be a pain to have to work two-day weeks either end of the holiday.but you would have to burn 7 days of annual leave to get both weeks off.
My favourite is when Christmas falls on a Saturday or Sunday. Then the mandatory holidays shift to the the subsequent week-days. You only need to use three days to come back on the 3rd or 4th. You get one complete week and the next Monday off
Spare a thought for Frontier's support staff, some of whom work straight through the holidays. I had to contact them about a problem with Elite Dangerous a couple of years ago; I e-mailed them on Christmas Day afternoon, not expecting a response until the week after and got a reply at about 10am on Boxing Day.