Comment by jokethrowaway

Awesome! That reminds me of my paternity leave which I turned into basically working 3 days per week for a long time with some special considerations around holidays.

There is another layer to holidays optimisation based on stressful days though: eg. I'd rather work on a friday (when tons of people are off anyway, little chance of anyone bothering me with some meetings) than a monday; similarly I'd rather work around Christmas time than any other.