Yup, that’s one of the main reasons I picked it. 
When I was a pretty new to the job market, I realized there was little point to taking time off between x-mas and NY. Not only is it the ass-end of December in Chicago, but why do I want to take time off at a time that all the bosses are out of the office?!
In the military I made the same discovery.
Everybody and their sister wanted off from 15Dec - 30Dec to go home for Xmas. Most got it and the few who didn’t were angry as all get out. I say “Hum bah-hug” on that idea. I asked for and was always approved for leave 1Jan-15Jan with no competition.
I spent the last two weeks of the year in an empty office where my great great grand-boss was the first honcho still in the same state. Didn’t do shit. Then I bailed out as they all came back to overloaded inboxes & a massive flail.
About when they’d dug out of the mess and were frazzled I showed up with a fresh tan from de Islands, Mon, and waltzed into work.
Work smarter, not harder. A mantra for the ages.
For me, my oldest daughter’s birthday is between Christmas and New Years, and she lives on the other side of the country from me. So often I take off that time for her.
A friend doing software maintenance from home for over a decade was told, after the product got sold, that he had to go into the local office every day. This was years before the pandemic. There were fewer than a dozen people in the entire 3?4?5?-story building, and he was the only one who had anything to do with his product area. He put up with it for a few months, then got a real job. He HATED it, not only because it was stupid but because he kept falling asleep. And he’s not a lazy guy.
I returned to work in a school when very few students had parents who were comfortable sending them back. I still saw my remote classes, but also had the opportunity to get to know the kids who were in person very well. For instance, I noticed that a first grader who couldn’t read at all could interpret diagrams and other text features better than others his age.