AGENCY PERKS-SUMMER HOURS & EXTRA-LONG HOLIDAY WEEKENDS

A couple of the great things about working in advertising are the Summer Hours or Long Weekend policies.

For some agencies, Summer Hours mean that from mid-June until mid-September the office opens ½ hour early Monday to Thursday, but on Fridays the office closes at 1pm. It’s worth starting your day at 8:30 when you can look forward to sunny Friday afternoons out of the office.

 Other agencies choose to add an extra day to every long weekend, year-round, instead. For instance, if Friday is the statutory holiday, then the office is also closed on the following Monday.  If the holiday falls on Monday, the office is closed as of 5pm on the Thursday leading up to the long weekend. Yippee to that idea!

Our organization is a bit more complicated. Our traffic department services more than one agency, and the agencies we work with do not all follow the same schedule.  Some of our agencies have the 1pm Summer Hour closing, and some have the extended long weekend.

It’s a conundrum for us. We can’t be closed when our agency partners are working.  So we can’t leave early on Fridays when our agency partners are in for the full day and we can’t takan extra long-weekend day if the agency we work with is open for business.

It would be nice if our agencies could pick one or the other (1pm Fridays or extended long weekends) and all be on the same page. However, such is life and we have to roll with the punches. We just quietly work amongst ourselves to cover each other’s desks and take a few hours out of the office whenever our workload permits.

We certainly can’t complain too much, since most people with grownup jobs work 9-5 workdays all year long. Plus, when the sun is shining, we have a beautiful lakefront boardwalk nearby where we can spend the occasional lunch hour. Bring on the summer weather!