Blumberg Capital Partners was recently featured in an article on Daily Finance titled "People@Work: Washington's Birthday Off? Many Would Prefer Their Own". An excerpt:
A recent survey shows just how few employers observe some federal holidays. While 95% of businesses close their doors on Memorial Day, only about a third give employees a paid break on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January, or Monday's holiday, which is frequently, if erroneously, called Presidents' Day.
The poll, conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management, shows that even fewer employers honor the autumn holidays of Columbus Day and Veterans Day, with only 13% and 16%, respectively, closing for business on those days.
But do private-sector employees really care that they don't get those holidays off? When asked to rank their top choice of company-sponsored holidays among several days typically included among "floater" days, nearly half of office workers surveyed said they preferred to take off their own birthdays, according to a 2007 poll conducted by Blumberg Capital Partners. At 46%, that choice easily outdistanced others such as Veterans Day (14%), "Presidents' Day" (10%) or Martin Luther King Jr. day (8%).
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