For most Penguin Random House office employees, the last day of work for 2021 is December 17, multiple employees confirmed to PL. In addition to previously scheduled vacation days, the company added December 20 through 23. (PRH has usually been closed for at least part of Christmas Eve, if not the whole day.) The extra rest is welcome in a year in which employees across the industry have struggled with burnout, and one employee attributed the move to “a job well done the other 50 weeks of this year.” Other large publishers did not respond to our queries about any […]