The “wait for it to be accepted or declined” part is where most in this thread diverge. Time off is a notification, not a request, no matter what the HR platform or managers call it. Now, you can be a dick about it and not give any lead time for management to prepare for your absence, or not, and that would have obvious consequences.
I’ve always treated it as a notification, not a request, even early in my working career when in retail where you have low-skill power-tripping middle managers that think they can just say no. I was never fired for it, but you can be sure those managers hated me for it, nonetheless. Zero minutes of sleep lost.
That’s also gonna vary between countries - where I live there is a legally mandated mandatory amount of days of vacation per year, but to my understanding the employer decides when you get to use them - you do get a few days of on demand time off, but that’s separate from the bulk of it. So, unless you’re using one of the few on demand days off, it is indeed a request, and the employer can deny them.
The “wait for it to be accepted or declined” part is where most in this thread diverge. Time off is a notification, not a request, no matter what the HR platform or managers call it. Now, you can be a dick about it and not give any lead time for management to prepare for your absence, or not, and that would have obvious consequences.
I’ve always treated it as a notification, not a request, even early in my working career when in retail where you have low-skill power-tripping middle managers that think they can just say no. I was never fired for it, but you can be sure those managers hated me for it, nonetheless. Zero minutes of sleep lost.
That’s also gonna vary between countries - where I live there is a legally mandated mandatory amount of days of vacation per year, but to my understanding the employer decides when you get to use them - you do get a few days of on demand time off, but that’s separate from the bulk of it. So, unless you’re using one of the few on demand days off, it is indeed a request, and the employer can deny them.