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Re:What I Learned from Working 32 Hours a Week by kwrobel on Sunday January 06, 2019 @09:48AM (#18838563)
In some countries it is mandatory by law to have 14 days in one block per year.
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Re:What I Learned from Working 32 Hours a Week by eru on Sunday January 06, 2019 @10:17AM (#18838707)
One finance job I worked in had that regulation. (But it wasn't a general thing in that country.)
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Re:What I Learned from Working 32 Hours a Week by sokoloff on Sunday January 06, 2019 @10:20AM (#18838729)
Policies like that are often designed to (or at least conceived/fantasized to) ferret out/prevent single-actor fraud.

Forcing someone to take two contiguous weeks out of the office means that someone else will need to be briefed for continuity and there's an enhanced chance of detecting "weirdness" that might be associated with a fraudulent scheme.

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Re:What I Learned from Working 32 Hours a Week by eru on Sunday January 13, 2019 @02:30AM (#18895586)
Yes, 'conspiracies' of more than one person are much harder to keep under wraps. That regulation was directly in response to the high-profile cases of rogue traders.
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