Guides
Working-day arithmetic looks trivial until you cross a border. These guides cover the decisions behind the numbers, the terminology that does not translate, and the rules that differ from one European country to the next.
How working days are calculated
Two tools can look at the same country and the same year and return different numbers. This explains the arithmetic, the four decisions every calculator has to make, and where the disagreements come from.
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Bank holiday vs public holiday
The phrase travels badly. In the UK it is a statutory category; in Finland, Germany and most of the EU there is no such thing. Getting this wrong produces real payroll errors.
6 min read
Bridge days and long weekends
Brückentag, pont, ponte, most, klämdag. Every European language has a word for the working day stranded between a holiday and a weekend, and every HR team plans around them.
6 min read
What happens when a holiday falls on a weekend
Whether a weekend holiday is lost or replaced is the single biggest source of variation in annual working-day counts across Europe. Here is who does what.
8 min read
Working days in payroll and project planning
A month can hold anywhere from 18 to 23 working days. For hourly payroll, capacity forecasts and deadline arithmetic, that spread is not a rounding error.
7 min read
Looking for the figures rather than the explanation? Browse working days by country.