“25 vacation days is 25 vacation days” — until you place them well. Depending on where you live, the same allowance can stretch into 40 or more days off in a year, simply by bridging public holidays and weekends. Our landing page now proves it with real numbers instead of promises.
How it works
Right below the hero you will find the new country showcase. It rotates through a set of featured countries — flag, country name, and the payoff: 25 PTO days → X days off. That X is not a marketing estimate. Behind the scenes we run the exact same optimizer the planner uses, with the same default settings, for the current year. The answers are cached so the page stays fast.
Your country not in the rotation? Use the Pick your country selector to choose any supported country and the card updates instantly with its number.
Try it
When a number catches your eye, hit the call to action below the selector — “In {country} from 25 days to {X} overall days” — and you land directly in the planner with that country and a 25-day allowance already filled in. The optimization runs immediately, so you can start shuffling ranges, locking days, and shaping the plan around your real year.
If you prefer reduced motion, the rotation and animations switch off automatically and you can browse countries at your own pace.
Why bridging works
The trick is that public holidays and weekends already create clusters of non-working days, and a vacation day placed in the gap between two clusters connects them into one longer stretch. For example, if a public holiday falls on a Thursday, taking the Friday off gives you four consecutive days off for the cost of a single vacation day. When several holidays land near each other — like Easter week or the Christmas-to-New-Year stretch — the same principle stacks, and a handful of PTO days can unlock a week or more of rest.
That is why the same 25-day allowance can produce wildly different results depending on your country’s calendar: countries with more holidays that fall near weekends, or clusters of holidays, tend to reward bridging the most. The showcase runs the real optimizer for each country, so the number you see already accounts for that country’s actual holiday schedule, not a generic estimate.
Frequently asked questions
Is the number real?
Yes — behind the scenes we run the exact same optimizer the planner uses, with the same default settings (25 vacation days, ranges of 4–14 days, current year. For featured countries, the results are cached so the page stays fast, but they come from the real algorithm, not a marketing estimate.
Which countries are featured?
The rotation currently features Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Australia, and Japan — but you can pick any supported country from the selector below the hero, and the card updates instantly with its number.
Why 25 days?
25 is the planner’s default vacation-day allowance — a round, common mid-point between the ~11 days typical in the United States and the 20–30 statutory days common across Europe. It keeps the comparison fair across countries while still being realistic for many employees.
How do I open this in the planner?
Hit the call to action below the selector — “In {country} from 25 days to {X} overall days” —and you land directly in the planner with that country and a 25-day allowance already filled in. The optimization runs immediately, so you can start shuffling ranges, locking days, and shaping the plan around your real year.