alt Hacker News> and their users are the data scientists that are also on holiday around the same times
I’ve seen this before. It turns into restrictions on when you can schedule vacation times.
Not fun when your family wants to go on a trip but you can’t get the time off because it’s not one of the allowed vacation times.
Ouch, that is indeed a risk one must be wary of. Can be a "works for the company but sucks for employees". Which can also drain the company of skilled people, a poor trade in most cases.