Originally Posted by
studentCPH
While most people have the day off, and many stores are closed or have reduced opening hours, the 24th is not an official Holiday in Denmark.
If schools and day-care facilities are closed or closing early on the day before a national holiday, a bunch of employees will probably be cutting off from work before the official holiday from work starts for the pool of employees who are empty-nesters or have no kids.
In Copenhagen, it's not all that unusual for an office to have one or more employee living in Sweden. And those Denmark-working-but-Sweden-residing Danish and Swedish employees seem to often have kids in Swedish schools.