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11-28-2015 07:39 PM
Many advertising agencies in NYC that we work with (and in Toronto too) will be closed the entire week between Christmas and New Year's.
I first noticed that a number of Canadian businesses did this - now the largest ad agencies in the world are doing the same.
I don't know how they are compensated in NYC. I asked the Tim Horton's ad people in Toronto and they said it was an extra week of vacation (paid) for the whole staff....not part of their usual vacation package.
Anyone else work in an industry that does this? Paid or not?
11-28-2015 07:43 PM
My husbands business doesn't actually close, but they might as well because most of his customers are on vacation that week, it's always dead. He always takes the week of Christmas off and this year he's taking the week off Christmas and New Years off. He also took this Thanksgiving week off too.
11-28-2015 07:43 PM - edited 11-28-2015 07:44 PM
Nope although I am kind of hitting paydirt this year holiday wise. I had Thursday and Friday off paid. (Had to edit this as I didn't know what day it was, sigh).
Next is Christmas Eve and Day and New Years Eve and Day. I enjoy 4 day weekends (paid), lol.
11-28-2015 07:45 PM
I do........and it's paid..................................raven
11-28-2015 07:48 PM
our business doesnt close for an entire week......just for july 4th, memorial day, labor, christmas day, and new years day.
i do know that our reglar dentist closes his large office during the week of christmas to new years AND during the week that public school kids go back to school. these weeks are in addition to the time off he gives as part of an individual employees paid time off.
11-28-2015 07:50 PM
@terrier3 wrote:Many advertising agencies in NYC that we work with (and in Toronto too) will be closed the entire week between Christmas and New Year's.
I first noticed that a number of Canadian businesses did this - now the largest ad agencies in the world are doing the same.
I don't know how they are compensated in NYC. I asked the Tim Horton's ad people in Toronto and they said it was an extra week of vacation (paid) for the whole staff....not part of their usual vacation package.
Anyone else work in an industry that does this? Paid or not?
My daughter works in advertising, they have a skeleton crew. Everyone works one day the week of Christmas and one day the week of New Years.
11-28-2015 07:50 PM
My neice works for a major advertising agency in Chicago. The offices shut down from December 25th until January 4th this year.
11-28-2015 07:52 PM
The company my husband worked for when were married always gave the week off between Christmas and New Years, that's why we got married in December!
11-28-2015 07:53 PM
My brother in law owns an engineering firm that does back up power for the FAA and VA. He closes down the week of Christmas because no one from the FAA that oversees those types of projects is in so he closes down usually the Friday before Christmas and doesn't open back up until after NYD.
My brother also gets the month of December off. He works in Korea for a private defense firm and he hasn't worked in December for a while now. He is overseas a lot though so it is nice that he doesn't have to go in.
11-28-2015 07:55 PM - edited 11-28-2015 08:03 PM
My first full-time job, we were closed, with pay for the entire month of August.
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