Leave Planning Blog
A growing editorial section for deeper annual leave planning: strategy, privacy, technical transparency, work-life balance, and the emerging culture of leave maxing.
These articles support the calculator with human context. The tool gives dates; the blog explains the decisions behind those dates and the trade-offs between different kinds of time away from work.
Leave Maxing
A practical explainer of leave maxing: what it is, why Australian workers are talking about it, how it turns fixed leave entitlements into better lived time, and how to do it without creating conflict at work.
Holiday Leave Theories
A decision guide for choosing the right leave-planning theory, with each strategy explained through practical, psychological, and workplace lenses.
How We Calculate
A transparent technical article explaining the calculator's data sources, scoring model, strategy weighting, school-holiday option, and browser-only execution.
Safety and Privacy
A trust-and-safety article that explains the site's browser-only calculation model, the absence of accounts or stored plans, the limits of share links, and the analytics safeguards now in place.
Why You Need a Holiday
A human-centred essay about annual leave as maintenance for attention, relationships, perspective, and sustainable work rather than a luxury or guilty interruption.
Long vs Short Breaks
A study-style decision article comparing long holidays and frequent short breaks, especially for workers whose jobs, teams, or home lives make long absences difficult.