In Sweden we're in a period of a fair number of squeeze days.

"Squeeze day? What is Per on about now?"

A squeeze day (directly translated from "klämdag") is a day that falls between a public holiday and the weekend.

In many organisations this will then also count as a holiday. But not in all of them. This can in a few cases depend upon union agreements, or on an HR decision. Usually it's local labor agreements that will decide. And they can apply to some squeeze days but not all of them. Yup, it gets confusing quite fast.

So it's not uncommon to be invited to meetings on squeeze days, accept, and then later realise you actually have a day off work. Because we all use digital calendars which certainly don't bring squeeze days to your attention.

In families of course it can be that one person has a squeeze day and another may have to use a vacation day to be off on the same day.

Being self-employed I have to double-check this a lot. Because I can decide based on what clients I have at the moment.

Anyway, Ascension Day tomorrow is always on a Thursday and thus the day after is always a squeeze day.

And another way of expressing that would be: "Yay, it's a long weekend!"

So if you ever hear a swede talk about squeeze days, now you know.