Time Well Spent: A Guide to Holidays and Paid Time Off Policies

This report summarizes the results of a Winter 2023-2024 WorldatWork mini-study exploring U.S. holidays and leave policies.

Survey Results

In December 2023-January 2024, WorldatWork fielded a brief study to update our data on which U.S. holidays organizations are offering, whether they offer alternative work schedules, and how they structure and manage paid leave. Paid leave is covered in more detail in our larger Paid Time Off Programs and Practices Study, last conducted in 2019 (available here), but this mini-study includes the topics we've most frequently been asked to update. 

109 hours

average PTO bank

104 hours

average vacation time offered

62 hours

average sick leave offered

51%

of employees use all of the paid time off they accrue in a given year

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