What percent of the work year has elapsed?

Why work-year progress differs

A calendar year progress bar treats every midnight equally. That is useful for reflection, but it is not how most paid work is scheduled. Weekends are outside the normal work rhythm, and public holidays create uneven gaps that depend on where the team is based. By counting only weekdays and removing each country's holidays, this tool shows the year through the days when work is normally expected to happen.

The difference can be surprisingly large. A country with several spring holidays may be less far through its working year than the calendar suggests, even when both countries are on the same date. That matters for capacity planning, quarterly targets, leave budgeting, and the small personal arithmetic of how many ordinary workdays are left before December closes.

It is also a quieter way to think about time. The calendar-year view asks how much of the year has gone; the working-day view asks how much of your finite work attention has already been spent. Use it alongside the year progress tool for the full-year view, or the working-days calculator when you need a precise count between two dates.