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Holiday Strategist
Maximize Your 2022 Time Off: A Guide to Bridge Days
Lengthening your getaways: 2022 presents ample opportunities for extended vacations
Clever vacation scheduling using bridge days unlocks significant extra leisure time. By strategically combining holidays with a few personal days, one can easily more than double their time off.
As the new year begins, workers’ vacation balances are replenished. While 2022 isn’t a year overflowing with holidays, it surpasses 2021 in offering advantageous opportunities for extended breaks. Several holidays readily lend themselves to brief vacations through strategic bridge day planning.
Labor Day falls on a Sunday, and both Christmas holidays land on a Sunday and Monday. However, examining the 2022 calendar reveals that October 3rd (German Unity Day) occurs on a Monday, making extensive vacation preparation worthwhile. Some states even offer chances for more days off using fewer vacation days thanks to additional autumnal public holidays—a schedule overview is recommended.
The start of 2022 offers limited bridging potential, as New Year’s Day falls on a Saturday. Nevertheless, residents of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, or Saxony-Anhalt can benefit from Epiphany (January 6th, a Thursday), potentially securing a full week off with just four vacation days.
International Women’s Day, a public holiday solely in Berlin, falls on Tuesday, March 8th in 2022—perfect for bridge-day enthusiasts in the second week of March.
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A lengthy springtime getaway to sunny southern locales is ideal around mid-April, coinciding with the Easter Festival (April 14/15). Adroit bridge-builders can enjoy a sixteen-day escape using just eight vacation days. Even with a mere four days off the week after Easter, you’ll still savor a nine-day respite.
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Since May 1st falls on a Sunday, any bridge-day strategies are unnecessary – your boss will be pleased. However, the situation differs for the Ascension of Christ, typically a Thursday (May 26th): One vacation day provides a lengthy weekend; four vacation days yield a nine-day break.
A similar extended absence is achievable by taking four vacation days around the Pentecost Holidays (June 5th/6th). The week following Corpus Christi (Thursday, June 16th) presents a long weekend opportunity for workers in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Saarland. By cleverly combining this with Whit Monday in these states, sixteen days off are possible with a mere eight vacation days used.
Beginning in the summer, meticulous vacation schedulers must exercise patience until late in the year. Bavarian and Saarland workers can anticipate a lengthy weekend commencing Monday, August 15th, observing Assumption Day.
Following the disappointments of the past two years, German Unity Day in 2022 falls on a Monday, perfectly suited for a prolonged weekend. Four additional vacation days yield a nine-day respite.
The reinstated Reformation Day will also grace a Monday in 2022, celebrated in Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, and Thuringia.
Workers in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Saarland enjoy a break the following day. All Saints’ Day, observed on Tuesday, November 1st, allows for a nine-day break with the addition of four vacation days.
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Employees can anticipate a lackluster conclusion to 2022. Christmas Day falls on a Sunday, followed by a Monday holiday. New Year’s Eve lands on a Saturday, providing a generous nine-day respite, considering the subsequent four vacation days.
