Annual Leave 2024

The 2024 XpertHR annual leave benchmarking survey, including basic holiday entitlement and leave management practices, paid family-related leave and paid bereavement leave. The survey is based on responses from 364 organisations, covering a combined workforce of 444,010 employees.

Survey questions

What is the basic annual holiday entitlement in days for full-time employees in your organisation?
Does your organisation provide higher levels of annual leave based on seniority?
Does your organisation allow any employees to carry-over unused holiday, above the statutory entitlement, into the next holiday year?
How many annual leave days can employees carry over into the next holiday year?
By when in the next holiday year must employees use carried-over leave?
Where there is a limit on the number of days' leave that can be carried over, what happens to outstanding leave above the carry-over limit?
What approaches does your organisation take to encourage employees to take their full holiday entitlement?
Does your organisation allow employees to bring forward/borrow holiday from their entitlement for the following year?
Does your organisation limit the amount of annual leave that employees can take in a single block?
What is the maximum amount of leave employees can take in a single block each year?
Does your organisation have policies around when employees must or must not take holiday?
Does your organisation allow employees to buy additional holiday entitlement?
How many additional days leave can employees buy each year?
Does your organisation allow employees to sell holiday entitlement?
How many days leave can employees sell each year?
What types of additional paid leave does your organisation give to employees?
What is the maximum number of days paid leave your organisation provides for moving home per year?
What is the maximum number of days paid leave your organisation provides for getting married per year?
What is the maximum number of days paid leave your organisation provides for a child's school event or activity per year?
What is the maximum number of days paid leave your organisation provides for a birthday per year?
What is the maximum number of days paid leave your organisation provides for duvet days per year?
What is the maximum number of days paid leave your organisation provides for wellbeing per year?
What is the maximum number of days paid leave your organisation provides for time off for Christmas per year?
Do employees at your organisation receive additional holiday entitlement based on length of service?
What types of paid family-related leave does your organisation provide?
What is the maximum number of days paid leave your organisation provides for neonatal leave per year?
What is the maximum number of days paid leave your organisation provides for carer's leave per year?
What is the maximum number of days paid leave your organisation provides for emergency leave for family/domestic reasons per year?
What is the maximum number of days paid leave your organisation provides for extended leave for family/domestic reasons per year?
What is the maximum number of days paid leave your organisation provides for fertility treatment per year?
What is the maximum number of days paid leave your organisation provides for pregnancy loss per year?
What is the maximum number of days paid leave your organisation provides for foster carer duties per year?
What is the maximum number of days paid leave your organisation provides for domestic abuse per year?
Does your organisation offer paid bereavement leave for employees?
What is the maximum amount of paid bereavement leave that employees can take for spouses/civil partners?
What is the maximum amount of paid bereavement leave that employees can take for partners?
What is the maximum amount of paid bereavement leave that employees can take for parents?
What is the maximum amount of paid bereavement leave that employees can take for siblings?
What is the maximum amount of paid bereavement leave that employees can take for children?
What is the maximum amount of paid bereavement leave that employees can take for children lost during pregnancy?
What is the maximum amount of paid bereavement leave that employees can take for grandparents?
What is the maximum amount of paid bereavement leave that employees can take for grandchildren?
What is the maximum amount of paid bereavement leave that employees can take for step-relations?
What is the maximum amount of paid bereavement leave that employees can take for in-laws?
What is the maximum amount of paid bereavement leave that employees can take for cousins?
What is the maximum amount of paid bereavement leave that employees can take for aunts or uncles?
What is the maximum amount of paid bereavement leave that employees can take for pets?
Does your organisation have a flexible bank holiday policy?
Is your organisation planning to review or change its leave policies in the next year or so?

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Date:: 09 February 2024
Source:: Brightmine Surveys
Participants:: 364

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Annual leave research 2024

Benchmarking - HR Metrics

Annual Leave 2024

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