Talk:Garden leave

Why is F1 being singled out here? I don't think it's applied any more to F1 than anything else and only reflects the editors knowledge / interest in F1 MrMarmite (talk) 15:49, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Systemic bias
I believe the characterisation of possible systemic bias misses the point: there is unlikely to be a "worldwide view" of the topic when the term itself is not used worldwide. Is there a way to indicate this? I have only heard the term on television broadcasts and print media originating in the UK, it appears to be unused or virtually so in the USA. Mwichmann (talk) 23:07, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

This is an expression used all the time here in Geneva, Switzerland. It's banking/trading jargon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.56.181.123 (talk) 20:04, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Garden Leave can extend beyond the notice period. For example employees can be put on Garden Leave during the consultaion period which preceeds the notice period. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.161.98.60 (talk) 20:45, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

The expression "gardening leave" is also used colloquially here in Australia to refer to employees being directed to absent themselves from duty (while still being paid) because their attendance would be administratively inconvenient or would be inappropriate (eg, during the course of an investigation). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.45.205.37 (talk) 23:04, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

This term is common use in the finance sector in Australia. I'm actually on gardening leave as I type. 110.20.16.79 (talk) 04:54, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Update Feb 15, 2022: I recommend marking this discussion as resolved. In the decade since this concern was original raised, the expression has very clearly become common outside the UK. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.164.193.200 (talk) 18:08, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

Garden leave or gardening leave?
My understanding is that in its upper middle class origin, "garden leave" means you don't want someone in the house (ie, doing stuff or knowing what's going on), so you send them into the garden (upper middle class houses always have gardens right?)

The concept was too abstract for the general population, so it mutated to "gardening leave", which means all an employee is good for is to stay home and tend to his or her garden.

Which also explains why the latter is more widely used in the media. Rainjar (talk) 02:21, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Interesting. Right now I have a British contract in front of me with "Garden Leave" verbatim. Zezen (talk) 13:57, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

According to this government site the term is "Gardening Leave". BMGRAHAM (talk) 15:38, 19 September 2021 (UTC)