Stanford Report, November 15, 2006

Campus-wide winter shutdown scheduled to begin Dec. 20

This year's winter shutdown will begin on Wednesday, Dec. 20, with work resuming on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2007. The university will observe the following dates as paid holidays during that time: Dec. 25, Dec. 26 and Jan. 1. One additional day will be considered a paid day off, and for most of the university, that will be Dec. 27.

Those who must work on that day will be granted a different paid day off during the shutdown. Employees may use available vacation, personal time off (PTO), their floating holiday or approved time off without pay to cover the remaining days of the closure. Employees also may borrow their 2007 PTO or floating holiday or their vacation for the month of December.

This will be the fourth consecutive year that the university shuts down as a cost-saving measure.