NEW YORK (NYTIMES) - In a typical year, New York employees of the magazine publisher Condé Nast must use their vacation days before late December or lose them - a common policy across corporate America. But early this month, the company sent employees an email saying they could carry up to five vacation days into next year, an apparent acknowledgment that many scrimped on days off amid the long hours and travel restrictions imposed by the pandemic. "The carry-over will be automatic, and there is nothing further you need to do," the email said. Condé Nast was not alone in scrambling to make end-of-year arrangements for vacation-deprived workers. Some employers, however, have been less accommodating. "It's a big issue we're seeing now - competing requests for time off over the next two weeks," said Allan S. Bloom, an employment lawyer at Proskauer in New York. "Clients are struggling to figure it out." Mr Bloom and other lawyers and human resources experts said there was no clear pattern in how employers were handling the challenge. Many companies that already allow employees to carry vacation days into the next year - like Goldman Sachs (generally up to 10) and Spotify (generally up...