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Andrew Dickens: We deserve our summer break
The story that keeps getting my goat this week has been the accusation that New Zealanders take too many holidays over the Christmas-January period.
It’s burbled along since the weekend. Business owners, economists, Simon Bridges, and talkback callers all alleging that the country closes down for a month and that’s killing our productivity.
But there’s no proof of that and the allegations seem little better than reckons.
Let’s remember that the rest of the Christian world are also off for Christmas-New Year, so we’re not losing competitiveness over that week. And the northern hemisphere…
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