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Q: Why do (some?) Chinese companies wait until the last minute to announce holiday schedules?

How can anyone plan for their holidays in advance when the advance notice is sometimes literally one or two days? I feel bad for some of my waidiren Chinese colleagues trying to figure out how and when they're going to get back home for the upcoming spring festival.  I've still yet to understand how this benefits the companies that do this.

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The employee's lives are of no consequence to many business leaders.

 

Shameful but true.

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It is a 4000 year tradition of keeping people in the dark. Do not give away information unless it will benefit you. Planning ahead is not prevalent in Chinese society, e.g. you can only book a train ticket 10 days before departure.

On the other hand, all the employees will know that everything will be the same as last year, so there is hardly any surprise.

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Didn't this happen nationwide just a few weeks ago?

 

I was at home in the states and got an email on Dec 28 from my boss saying that the national holiday schedule was changed and that people now had off from Jan 1-3. I'd previously booked a ticket back here on the 31st just to get back in time for work on Jan 2. I was pretty pissed when I found this out.

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Yeah, I also spent New Year's Eve on a plane.  They didn't drop a ball or anything, just announced when the clock struck 12:00am CST (flight crew was Chicago based).  That whole deal was more of a governmental last minute thing than a company last minute thing though wasn't it?  Although I guess that does hint at the cultural tendency to do what we're talking about...

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One thing that Chinese people seem to have in their lives is an annoying inability to organize and to plan anything ahead. It's not just holidays. It's itineraries, meetings, records and just about everything else. Life would be much simpler here even with a modicum of foresight.

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how much tourism money do they lose because people give up on planning trips and say to hell with it like me.

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They don't care! They don't need, want nor can they cope with any more tourism in the main holidays, everywhere is so full you couldn't squeeze a smelly tofu in anyway.

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they suck.

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