[thaumasiotes]

> Almost right after that was a Chinese holiday, the Golden Week, which is in practice a two week holiday.

This doesn't match with my experience. Golden Week is a one-week holiday that gets you less than 5 days of vacation, because -- although companies are legally required to give Monday through Friday off -- the norm is to work on weekends around the holiday to make up for the lost time.

Does anyone have an idea what sort of Golden Week implementation Purism ran into? Why is it so different?

[phh]

My experience with ODMs at Shenzhen was that it's usually ten days for engineers. Could be down to one week when production was halted. But yeah that means workers only had 7 days. I didn't witness five days though. And they shut down power for the whole building, so people couldn't really get there early

[ethbro]

I'd be interested in hearing anyone's experience with holidays and China B2B.

Is it just kind of known that things stop there for certain weeks? Or are these formally set out in schedules?

My only experience has been B2C, where the experience is generally {no response} -> {a week later: "Oh, everyone was on holiday"}

[phh]

Well everyone there has the same holidays, and yes they mostly assume everyone they work with are well aware of it. So just ask them nicely every three months what are their next holidays

[gcb0]

China is a very big country.

[thaumasiotes]

True enough. What Golden Week practices have you encountered?