Senior colleagues, how should this sentence be translated? Urgent
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avoid crossing the weekend for trip durations less than 5 days
1# n2008 It’s best to provide context
Avoid weekends to keep the cycle under 5 days
Could it be the work system of some foreign company?
Avoid business trips that span different weeks, so as to keep the trip duration under 5 days. Many cheap companies have such rules
This is our company’s policy. It’s not easy to translate
If the leave period is less than 5 days, it is not allowed to take leave across weekends. In other words, if you want to take four days off, it must be from Monday to Thursday or from Tuesday to Friday. You can’t plan to start taking leave after Tuesday, as that would leave only three working days in that week, and then you’d have to continue taking two days off the following week. . . Because there’s a weekend in between, it’s as if you get an extra two days off in total. (I’m not sure whether to use \"business trip\" or \"leave\" – is there a term for a business trip in this context?) ) It should be the regulations regarding annual leave – generally five days, just my humble opinion. .
Trip = Vacation? I haven’t heard much about this. Is it true that as soon as you get time off, you go on a trip? That’s pretty nice. Personally, I think it’s more appropriate to translate “trip” as “business trip”. Of course, it needs to be understood in context. A business trip in English generally refers to a trip for work
If the leave period is less than 5 days, avoid crossing weekends.
If the business trip lasts less than 5 days, do not skip the weekend.
Just from this sentence, I think it’s more appropriate to translate \"trip\" as a business trip or a journey. If it’s part of the vacation policy, I don’t see any reason for that – it shouldn’t matter how one takes their vacation, right? So I think the proper translation is \"If the business trip is less than 5 days, avoid weekends.\"