How many working days in year 2017?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2017 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 260 days.
Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 2017.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. Maundy Thursday : Thursday, 13 April, 2017
2. Good Friday : Friday, 14 April, 2017
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 17 April, 2017
4. General Prayer Day : Friday, 12 May, 2017
5. Ascension Day : Thursday, 25 May, 2017
6. Whit Monday : Monday, 5 June, 2017
7. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 2017
8. Boxing Day : Tuesday, 26 December, 2017
And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 2017
2. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 16 April, 2017
3. Pentecost : Sunday, 4 June, 2017