With the holidays fast approaching, the Society for Human Resource Management is helping to set the tone with the release of its annual Holiday Schedules survey. This year, SHRM found 38 percent of those who responded will be offering as many as five floating holidays to employees in 2014.
These holidays, defined as "a holiday that the organization has not scheduled," come in addition to other more common holidays. Overall, 78 percent of organizations give workers six to 10 paid holidays. Part-time staffers receive up to five paid holidays at 51 percent of the responding companies.
The most commonly observed by employers in 2014 will be Dec. 25 (aka Christmas Day), observed by 95 percent of employers.
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Other biggies: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day and Thanksgiving Day, all holidays for 90 percent of the respondents.
Here's how other significant days rate as days off:
- Martin Luther King Day (Jan. 20): 36 percent
- Dec. 24 (Christmas Eve): 35 percent
- President's Day (Feb.17): 35 percent
- Good Friday (Friday before Easter, which is on a Sunday): 21 percent
- Wednesday before Thanksgiving: 18 percent
- Friday after Thanksgiving: 2 percent
SHRM also found that 64 percent of organizations are closed on weekends, 26 percent are open on Saturdays, and 9 percent are open on Sundays.
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
