“Gardening leave” is the polite fiction - much to do in your personal garden, so you are being given exceptional paid time off to deal with it. I have genuinel

“Gardening leave” is the polite fiction - much to do in your personal garden, so you are being given exceptional paid time off to deal with it. I have genuinely spent a lot of time once sorting out the vegetable beds during a period of gardening leave. It was VERY therapeutic!