2025 PTO Optimizer

What it does

HAD to convert that meme to an app 😅 Maximize your 2025 vacation time with this PTO Optimizer tool. Strategically plan your paid-time-off around public holidays and weekends to enjoy extended breaks and make the most of your well-deserved downtime.

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  Vacation Maximizer – Maximize PTO by taking days off around holidays2025 · vacation-maximizer.com · ▲6

  Hey! In my last job I was constantly wondering when it would be best to take days off so I could enjoy the most days off in a row, so I made this tool! It tries to schedule PTO around holidays so that you get the most consecutive time off while spending as few days as possible. You can set some constraints, customize the holidays and define mandatory vacation days (in case your company mandates them). If you try for 2025, you should see results for the rest of the year. If there are unscheduled days, it's because there isn't a particularly good period to take them off. (I should make this…

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