Well, ask Elon Musk. You fire them and contract new „hungry“ people.

​@@EVPaddy, sadly true.

There’s always a big queue of peasants ready to do more for less. Keep them scared and desperate and watch the profits roll in

Agreed,it’s the same for the UK too

This is the point!

must be a union shop or gov't. job. Nowhere in the non-union private sector do Americans enjoy a paycheck while producing nothing.

As a British person I love hearing Germans talk to Americans in meetings. Germans just want to discuss what is needed and get back to work, Americans want to have small talk for 15 mins for no reason, use far too many words to explain what they needed then have another bit of small talk at the end. Germans hate this shit, it's not like they don't like small talk they do but not when you are supposed to be working.

​@@jollyrodgers7272 No one said producing nothing, what was said was far less productive as in getting less done in the alloted time and resources

its the same with our american factory, the need 3 to 4 days to get their goods from the incoming goods department into the factory. we did the same in 3 to 4 hours

@@jamesdewitt84 To be fair I use my American coworkers to get better at Smalltalk. But you're right, it's a culture clash oftentimes. And to be clear, I like most Americans I've met. I just hate this talking about how hard they are working when they are basically wasting time.

After reading the last line of your comment i laughed my ass off😂😂🤣

😂😂😂😂😂😂👍🏻

In many countries you also get "vacation money", which is a half or even a whole month (13th month) salary. So, not only do you get more vacation you also are paid more to take the vacation (or to come back to work from a vacation😀In Finland it used to be called "return to work from the vacation money")

careful Americans might mistranslate that as 20 days / 25 months and 30 years!

@@sopcannon

That depends. In professions like teaching or emergency services your leave is allocated to you. For example schooo teachers must take the leave entitlement at the time the schools are off.

​@@lanabmc3519that's why teachers have 2 months paid vacation. They also work during some holidays, not teaching of course.

@@Vinz3ntR it’s a lot longer than two months here. Six weeks summer, one week October, two over Christmas, one over Easter and a few random public holidays here and there. It’s not just teachers. My husband is in emergency services and his leave is allocated also.

Yes! When do you live your normal life, if you don't even have a vacation? I used to take 5 weeks in a row in the summer to be with my chidren in our summer cottage swimming, going to swimming etc..and we got holiday payment too "lomaraha" and that helped too!

I have 26 days of vacation , so usually taking 3 weeks in row to made a small trip in my Country just to see other city, and rest at my parents summer house on country side. 11 days I leave for unexpected things that may happen - for example I feel sick, but don't get doctor note to got paid sick day, .

One of the best holidays I had with my family was a bicycle tour from Regensburg to Vienna always following the Danube river. We did a lot of site seeing and slept in cheap Bed and Breakfasts. I think we 4 persons spent not more than 1500 Euro for the complete week. We all still remember this from time to time. The quality of a vacation is not at all linked to the money you spend.

To not be at my computer for week or 2 weeks is great 😂

Yep, it's your time off to do what you want with it, with that said, more time off where you are secure in your job and being paid for that time off, a lot more people are likely going to go on vacations. Americans probably don't so much because the conditions are not favourable to allow them to do so, taking time off work and not being paid whiles having a vacation sounds expensive, but not only that, a lot of people like taking trips around the world for 2 weeks, sometimes longer, considering in the US they seem to discourage people from taking too long off work and the guilt that's pushed on Americans for doing so, makes it more likely that most Americans can't afford to go on vacations when they are worrying about their job, bills and all that. Considering that health care is tied to the job through insurance, you really don't want to lose your job in the US, and that pressure pushes lower standards on Americans out of fear of losing their job and health care benefits. It's a bit of a scam why the job and health care are tied together, but it's easy to see why it's done like that, to give more powers to businesses over the workers and the only reason these things don't happen in other modern countries is because the law doesn't allow it, the US as many know, is the odd countries in so many areas in how it treats it's people, and not in a good way.

Sssh, he might find out that socialism isn't a bad word.

I always do, and everybody should. Sick days are not relaxing, they are meant to get you to full health again.

Happened to me during this Christmas holiday. Didn’t even have to claim them back. There was an email in my inbox upon my return from an HR person saying “I saw in our system that you reported in sick, so I returned the vacation days for you”. That was for two days. 😍

​@@24magiccarrotyes, an illness interrupts the holiday. So you have to report it and claim additional days for the holiday. Austrian federal law.

@@mick-berry5331 No need to claim. Just send the doctors note. I had to do that after Christmas. On the other hand I have 5 more days for summer vacation.

100%. As an ex manager. That was my headache to deal with.

and still the economy of japan is bankrupting...

It’s a political thing. If labour laws mandated that employees have to get paid for any time spent at work the employers would make damn sure workers get their ass home to sleep in a proper bed instead of at the desk. Capitalism actually fixes that shit if there is an monetary incentive for the employer. First step is a law that mandates employers have to track employee overtime, otherwise it becomes a culture of employees "donating" overtime to their workplace to carry favour or "because everyone does it" which has health detriments for the employee and no monetary disincentive for the employer. The law also needs to be kinda heavy-handed. Company would be liable for exhaustion related illnesses *if* they don’t follow labour laws. The labour laws would be based on … oh I don’t know, maybe human biology?

While your comment, referring to the last chart shown, is wrong, it is correct in it's underlying meaning. They are indeed much less productive per hour because (and a lot of other reasons) of the long hours that they make. But the chart gives a really warped sense of scale. It seems the 0-point is not 0. It's supposed to be 100 with an addition each year due to inflation compensation. And each year earlier is less then 100. Check this one out, Japan is suddenly at 104. data.oecd.org/lprdty/gdp-per-hour-worked.htm Or wikipedia, where 2015 is set to 100: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_labour_productivity#Historical_development

And their workers suicidal rate is way higher than any country on earth 🥲

and usually on holiday season, things are a bit slower, so it isn't that much extra duty - this is because all companies have ppl on vacation.

And your company can hire vacation workers

That’s how the system works and why it works so well: in most companies, there are a set number of days when everyone is on vacation. In my company, it’s between Christmas and New Year. Everyone clocks out on December 24th and no one returns until January 2nd. This is pretty normal for Europe, which automatically means our customers don’t work then either. A very small skeleton staff is on call, basically getting paid an astronomical amount of money to pan the phones, monitor the general inbox of emails and… scroll on their own mobile. This is just in case of emergencies. The rest of the year everyone pretty much requests and gets their vacation time whenever they want. In very rare cases, you need to adjust a little bit. For example: this year I wanted to take January 2nd off, but as all other German-speaking colleagues had already gotten their vacation for that day approved I didn’t get that day. I didn’t mind, knowing it was going to be an extremely slow day… and I got to take the rest of that week off. It amounted to being present fir py colleagues and handling anything of theirs should it come up that day. Similarly, when one of us goes on vacation, there is always a hand-over to a colleague. Your back- up takes over for you when you’re gone whether it’s on vacation or for medical reasons. If that backup isn’t available, there is a 2nd backup and failing that, there is the manager. General cases and duties are handled by the team as a whole. As everyone works according to that system, no one minds. For example, if I see several general tasks on the list that normally would get handled by my colleagues for say France, the Nordics, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Italy or the UK, but those colleagues are absent, I will check with their assigned back-up how they’re coping and will take some over. I know they’ll do the same for me as well. We recently checked ut of curiosity and in the long run everyone ends up handling roughly the same amount of work. If someone would consistently avoid pulling their weight, they’d ostracise themselves very, very fast. HR has also been smart enough to make sure the reports take sick days into account in such a way that these don’t reflect negatively in our stats. There’s also a strict ‘no poaching’ rule: you NEVER take work away from a colleague without permission from that colleague (or their backup) if he or she is available. They are free to pass it on but if you want to take on something that isn’t yours, you ask. It’s a respect thing. Everyone is expected to take up all of their vacation days within the year. All of it. If due to circumstances you can’t there is a maximum of 2 days transferable to the first week of January. No more. And everyone sticks to that. From high management to the cleaning lady.

I 've just retired but just before retirement I had 30 paid vacation day plus 5 so called senior days and paid holidays. In 2022 I visited USA three times for a total of almost 2 months.

Yes I work for 3 weeks this June and my boss covers my routine tasks. My boss takes 6 weeks in the summer and I do his routine tasks. It's grand. I don't feel bad and he doesn't feel bad.

The problem for the US. are the consequences after Joseph McCarthy!

And thanks to the great Otto von Bismarck who hated the socialists so much that created social security laws to take their political agenda away (highly simplified)

Not in the US!

@@kratzikatz1nope, just in the civilised world 👍

@@kratzikatz1 why do you think the US banned unions!

10 Feiertage haben alle Bundesländer, manche, 11, 12 und in manchen Gegenden sogar 14 Tage.

@@patrickseidel218 Aber nicht alle davon fallen auf Werktage, 7 dürfte eine gute Schätzung sein für den Durchschnitt an Feiertagen die auf Arbeitstage fallen pro Jahr.

50+ German here, 65 days vacation this year, been sick home for 14 months untill last October.... still employed in the same company since 37 years...and not broke from Med bills! €27 per 3 months is cheap, for my meds!

for the americans: the fee per day in hospital is 10€/day. and if u are in hospital longer than 29days (combined within a year) u dont have to pay anymore. so its basically max 290€. if ur sick for longer than 6 weeks for the same illness within a year ur employer doesnt pay ur salary anymore and ur healthinsurancecompany pays u around 70% of ur normal income. u can insure urself for these costs for around 30/yr (for only hospitalfee) up to mostly 200-300€/yr for both and some other extras, like (single bed room, chiefdoctor treatment and so on...). but one health related thing that is costly even in germany is teeth. a checkup and the minimal treatment is free. but who wants a cement fronttooth when one breaks? so u have to pay up for a lot of things at the dentist and/or orthodontist.

And not forgetting the Überstunden that can add a fair few extra days to one’s holiday entitlement..

I could add : work on your house / apartment, work on your own projects, explore stuff / learn new things

I would add: do some sport, small tours, hikes around lakes, forest. It really doesnt have to be expensive. In european parks (if there is good weather) u can See people doing sport, eating, reading, enjoying sun, just laying on the grass. Some european cities have also free or cheap tickets for museum on some days. They are a lot of posibilieties.

And if the person going on vacation is a problem, it's really bad planning by the employer. What if the person got hit by a bus and was suddenly gone?

@@realulli I've worked countless temp' assignments, replacing employeees on holiday or on maternity or sick leave. No problem!

@@micade2518 exactly. If an employee going on vacation is a problem for a company, the company didn't do its homework. It could even be called a fire drill - "what happens if employee X is suddenly gone?". Unlike something actually catastrophic, the employee comes back and they get a chance to correct the failings/failures.

Everyone has to represent his colleagues at vacation time, so why bad feelings? And also the whole economy is slowing down at main vacation times.

@@muschelpuster1987 And in some industries you just don't get vacation time during the main season (or during school holidays)

The companies can get into big trouble if you don’t, so they are not interested in you not taking your vacation time.

​​@@irenezaleski4989 Makes sense with the past month where I work. Been getting everyone to use up their holiday hours before it resets on the 1st of march. I only had 9hrs left so took a random half day and finish few hours early on another.

And if you dont get the vacation in 1 year and get it not in next year till 1 . MARCH. THE VACATION IT GONE WITHOUT get money. Is gone if you dont said when you want to get it. Your company ask you in the beginning of the year when you want to get the vacation days. If too much co workers want the same time you have to talk . In your team . At the end the company have the last word. So every time a year enough workers in work. And if you not tell your vacation days they remember you. . In the following year only till 1. March time to get the old vacation days. If not till then you lost them without getting money for them Then they are gone. But then you have a diskussion with your company leader.

@@rh-yf6cg yep I'd have lost those hours if I'd not took them and not take them into the next set like we used to. Think a lot of companies here do that now.

Paid vacations.... yea but where does that money come from? The gov? The company? NO! FROM YOUR OWN PAYCHECK THE 11 OTHER MONTHS OF THE YEAR! Atleast in sweden.. doubt very much its different in other eu places.... if you are employed u have like 6% or something subtracted from your pay to be used as pay for your vacation. So if u quit a job right b4 vacation u get that money paid out to you. Same if ur a teenager and just work a summer job... those vacation pot money is still subtracted and u get it when u quit. Atleadt that's how I remember it.. its 30+yrs ago. ..

The more I learn about life in Finland the more I want to move there...

I think France made it illegal to contact employees for work after work hours - which makes a lot of sense to me. Back when I was working in the automotive industry, my team lead would habitually call me back into the office after work hours because I was the only design engineer who could do a certain task for our client at the time, Mercedes. So I'd end up putting in 10-12-hour days at least 3 times per month. Becoming a freelance marketer back in 2018 and leaving the UK was the best choice I ever made.

​@@razorwireclouds5708i once tested my work laptop at home on te weekend and thought i answer an email. My chef told my to not do this ever again 😅

Thats why you have summer workers to orevent this

freedom lost its meaning in US..all stayed in the past..now americans are too lazy,and sorry-sometimes so dumb...its no more American dream..

FREEEDOM AND DEMOCRACY YEAHHH - The Sound of brainwashed Americans who think its normal to be sweating their ass off to make a billionaire that much richer, and anything that could impede on that is 100% full on socialist dictatorship communist policed state.

Freedom to work 24/7

American freedom is the freedom to do things, in this case be horrible to your employees. European freedom is the freedom from having things done to you, in this case being abused by your employer. This concept of freedom from and freedom to goes through most other aspects of society, freedom to shoot people versus freedom to be shot, freedom to track your customers versus freedom from being tracked, freedom to put whatever you want in the food you produce versus freedom from eating food with additives that are bad for the consumer et certera. One has freedom from oppression the other has freedom of oppression.

Very good analysis.@@danvernier198

Correct, 30 days paid vacation is pretty much standard in Germany. Then you have 10-13 holidays depending on the state, if you're lucky, you live in Augsburg for an extra paid holiday for a total of 44 paid free days.

I've got a Masters degree and only 20 days. But well, I wouldn't call my job work. It's more like doing what I'd do anyways, but get paid well for it. So I'm having next month off, because I forgot to take my vacation days last year... again...

I currently have vacation because I had 12 days left from last years 30 days. Christmas time was busier than expected so I didn’t want to use them between the holidays. In 2020 working in a medical field I was temporarily prohibited from taking vacation and when I switched jobs they had to pay out my full 30 days. Tax on that was nasty though.

Offering much less than 30 days pretty much is a sign that you are fishing for the really desperate ones. Esp. with larger companies.

I really enjoy my 30 vacation days and it is normal to take two weeks for summer holidays. Also three weeks is ok and the best opportunity to travel. We have to use all the vacation days, it is really rare to get paid for not using the days off.

You can have the same in France, but i agree, it's rare to find these working conditions in other countries

I couldn't imagine working in the US with the ever-present possibility that you can just get fired on the spot with no recourse; with no paid vacation; no paid sick leave; no paid parental leave; etc.

@@razorwireclouds5708 in fact, their salaries are much higher than ours, and tjey have to pay their own medical care, spare money if they lose their job, and so on. They just have to behave like responsive adults and manage their money instead of having high taxes and let the goverment do it .

​@@Jsmithsurv Their salaries are higher but not MUCH higher. And so what? They pay 2x more per year for healthcare than the average EU citizen and they get worse health outcomes. The life expectancy in the US is shit. Also, don't be silly - Americans aren't responsible adults. They've got more debt. They're also wasteful, overweight and sedentary. Their cities are atrocious and car-centric. Their infrastructure is a century behind any modern EU country's. Their violent crime rates are through the roof. The reason we have the best infrastructure, services and health & safety standards in the world IS government.

@@Jsmithsurv At the end of the day, there isn't much financial difference for that amount of stress. That's why I'm working in Norway now. I could have an annual pre-tax salary of $110,000 in the USA, and I have $75,000 in Norway, with taxes around 28-30% when everything is added up at the end of the year and tax refunds come in. Tax is reduced for individuals with children, those with mortgages, car loans, etc. But I don't worry about health insurance; all my sick days are paid, even if I'm on sick leave for a year or two or three. If I were to lose my job, the state would pay me the average salary I've earned in the last 12 months for 2 years. I have 6 weeks of paid vacation, plus 2 weeks of collective vacation, totaling 8 weeks. + public holidays. And nobody minds if I take a day off on a Friday or Monday to have an extended weekend and travel somewhere. The important thing is that the work is completed on time. If I don't feel like going to the office, nobody holds it against me for working from home. Nobody watches the clock when I arrive at the office and when I leave. It's a completely relaxed atmosphere, and all projects are completed on time. Happy company, happy customers, and I'm happy too because I can organize my time as it suits me. When I have children, I'm entitled to an additional 12 days of paid leave per child for "child's illness." If I have a doctor's note and the child is seriously ill, I can take as much time off as necessary until the child recovers. And it's paid. Leaving work to drop off or pick up a child from daycare/school is also paid, and nobody has an issue with it. Currently, I commute about 50km to work, about 35 minutes by train. This is calculated at the end of the year, and I receive a portion of the money back from the tax office. There are many benefits. I know people who have 2-3 children, a mortgage, car loans, but their tax rate is 20% when everything is taken into account. Singles pay the highest tax. So those lies about people in Norway paying 40-50% taxes, lies that are sold to Americans, that's not true. Americans, when they pay everything we pay through taxes, have the same or less money.

To show this chart is just stupid, it doesn't have anything helpful for this topic, as it show annual growth of productivity (how much did the GDP per hour worked increase in a year). This doesn't say anything about the baseline productivity, Japanese could be 10 times more productive than Greek in that chart.

@@moe.m Indeed. On top of that, it's 2021. I wonder if there was anything that had an impact on productivity in 2020 that might have had an influence... btw. I also like the numbers about the vacation trips with 2 million trips and 800 billion spent. That's 400 thousand per trip? no wonder americans tend to not do those. :D A couple of zeros missing here.

On top of that : productivity has little to do with long working hours. It really depends on what you actually do during working hours. It’s like running a 100 meters or a marathon. It’s not the same speed :-)!

Here staying always late at work means either that your boss is incompetent and you have too much work delegated to you or you are incompetent and can't do your job.

If I would do overtime security would call why the alarm hasn't been set yet.

In the UK and EU it is illegal to work for over 6 hours without a break. That is why they push you to take your break.

+ add paid sick leave and paid maternity/paternity leave to that

@@julianpierwotniak7690 these 20 or 26 do not depend on education, but on how long you work in total. (in all places from your first job where you have a 1/2 time or more contract). Education helps because the time spent studying is included in this period, so after master you need only 5 years, and if you study and work in the same time you get 26 days after masters.

these 20 or 26 do not depend on education, but on how long you work in total. (in all places from your first job where you have a 1/2 time or more contract). Education helps because the time spent studying is included in this period, so after master you need only 5 years, and if you study and work in the same time you get 26 days after masters.

But, but freedom

Freedom and democracy!!!!! 😂😂😂😂

Well duh, everyone knows 'Murica is the greatest country in the world! Except for the fact that in Europe, we have free (or at least affordable) healthcare and education, higher wages, more vacation time, better infrastructure, healthier food, and a higher life expectancy (also caused by a lower chance to get murdered by gangs or police). But hey, just minor details, right?

@@paulbeneder9337 A Democracy with two Partys is just one party away from Dictatorship! :)

@@OnkelTotto Is it proven that there are 2 parties? Or is it just one nationalist party that has two wings - one is more conservative and the other is more far right…? 🤔🤔😁😁

Excuse meeeeeeee! Im from a so-called Third World Country (Panama), and we have 30 days paid vacation, 18 annual sick days, 12 national holidays, we have maternity leaves (14 weeks paid leave) and most recently are under discussions to allow paid paternity leaves as well, and we get time off for marriages and funerals as well.... So I would argue US labor laws are even worst than a third world country.... just saying....

I was about to say, most so called "third-world" countries at least have more access to education, healthcare and paid vacations, the US has the most misplaced perception of itself. @@litagoti

@@litagotiaccording to the number of days off Panama is not a third world country

Im from a so-called 3th world country, which is Brazil and we have 30 days of vacation per year, many holidays (even I get impressed) 6 months of martenity leaves (paid) also partenity leaves (5 days per law and some companies give 20). If you get sick you still get your payment. The company gives you the health insurance, transportation, etc..

@@freekvarossieau9666 saddly most lists will definitely put us in the 3rd world country just for being located in Latam, and due to our high poverty rates (disparities caused by inequality), political instability, access to education etc. But I would argue we are more in the "developing countries" bracket nowadays due to our GDP, high income rates, literacy rates improvement, infrastructure, and transportation.

i wish we had that 10 year gift here in the netherlands. im already motivated to keep working long for a company. but that would motivate me even more hehe

I am German, but same. Just because I take some time off doesn`t mean I have to go somewhere. I am just as happy to just stay home and relax.

Indeed. I love my vacations between 8pm and 8am.

For some vacation time is even AT work. As civil servants say : I asked for a job, not for work.

Don't forget those wonderful "squeeze days" that a lot of us enjoy 😅

@@khman4554 just love ‘em.

and if you work on those days you usually get them as extra vacation later in the year @@khman4554

It's because teams in America work on skeleton crews. Many doing the work of 2 or 3 ppl. So 1 person leaving really makes an impact and overloads the system in terms of workload.

@@grazynawolska8160 yeah, well…time to sharpen that broad-ax, then.

Some industries in Victoria have portable long service leave. Not sure about other states but it would surprise me if Victoria is alone. Also worth noting that annual leave is cumulative in that unused leave in one year adds onto the next. Also, it is awarded pro rata to part time employees so a part timer working 4 days a week will get 80% of a full timer's annual leave entitlement.

My boss called me today while I was voluntarily working overtime. He told me to go home and give him a schedule as to when I wanted to take days off, because I had already worked so many extra hours.

I would not take a full time job with less than 30 days unless I am literally starving to death.

so true ! 30 days today is a standard in Germany. But this only holidays. As I heard in the US you may have 2 weeks paid days off, but this include also days you are sick ? In Germany we have another 6 weeks fully paid if you are sick, followed by another max. 72 weeks paid by the insurance ( about 60-70% of your last income net per month)

Yeah, same. 34 for me in The Netherlands on 1 FTE. I only work 32 hours, so I get 80% of that, but also only need 4 max to take a week off and that's if I don't plan it with national days off.

Yeah 30days + holidays is the average here too and that does come down to 6 weeks considering you were already off on weekends. Never used it in a row personally but its nice to have 2 weeks off now and then for some traveling around europe.

Yes. I don't know how the US families manage school holidays with younger kids, that just can't hang around home alone. On the other hand, half of Reddit and most of Insta and FB men (on Posts about family issues) always (literally ALWAYS) immediately come up with "bUt i wOrk anD shE hAs dO dO hEr fAiR sHaRe aT hOmE tHeN, nOt mE agAiN!!!!", so I guess, people assume that mothers generally stay at home (although I believe that's just some redpiller-lie, not reality) and that kind of nonexisting worker's rights probably enforce that forever.

Similar in Poland you get 1 year, 6 months mandatory & everyone takes additionnal 6months, if you tell HR at the beggining you want 1year you are payed 80%, if you hesitate 6months payed 100% + 6 6months payed 60% & HR teams usually require you to use all your leftover Holiday (here you can accumulate them over a period of 3years) so in the end you get 1year and around 2months with your child. It was a blessing for me and each of my kids. I got to teach them to walk, speak, eat, use the bathroom, hold pencils, all the important early stage moments in their life were witnessed by me. I find it extremely important - it created this great bond between me and my kids.

Same in Canada

Same in Ireland.

Similar in Sweden. You have 13 months of high pay days and 3 months with lower pay. At least three of those months have to be taken by the father, unless it's a single parent, and it's pretty common for parents to split the leave 50/50. Parents also get up to 120 paid sick days a year per child, up to the age of 12, so it's overall very easy to make sure children are well taken care of.

In sweden I get 240 days off work as the father, and mom gets 240 days off work. I also get 10 days off paid when the baby is born. 120 sick days a year per child. So if my child is sick, i call work and just tell them i wont come in. it got its own word in swedish "vabba" I vabbade for 6 weeks when my kid was born premature and was hospitalized. Doctor demanded both parents needed to be present and care for the child.

I am from Czech Republic and we have simmilar system, i believe its in most of european countries. Usualy the boss is bothering you in March, why you still haven´t planned your summer holiday. 😆

I'm in Ireland, we have a leave reservation system in my company, it shows us available days, and if you want it you book it and get immediate confirmation. I don't ask anyone to use my leave, nobody gets to decide if I can take leave, I just book the days I want from the available days.

This is most UK companies but usually there is a notification period, usually 2 weeks in advance where you need to request at least 2 weeks in advance. So long as there are enough people on, you can take vacation whenever. I feel the law is part of this since while the company is required to give you vacations throughout the year, it is not required to give specific days, a company that makes it essentially impossible for an employee to get their legally mandated 28 days can find itself in very big legal trouble, so no company pushes it, worker's rights is an amazing thing, perhaps the US should try them out at a federal level. Actually, will go further, since there are laws that most companies have to abide by, it is not unknown for people to get into trouble for taking no vacation at all, or for managers to point out when you're leaving too many days towards the last quarter of the year.

I just told my boss I'm going to Australia for 6 weeks in March 25 to go to a relatives wedding, not a problem. Most larger firms employ enough staff to cope with staff taking holidays as long as it's planned in advance. It should be the businesses problem to plan ahead.

I just tell my boss I'm not coming in on monday. For longer holidays i discuss with my co workers who is doing my work while I'm away. Apart from summer/winter holiday season when everybody wants to be away at the same time (and boss is sometimes needed to decide who have to be in the office) I'd be quite upset if my boss dares to interfere with my holiday plans.

I teach in the US. I like my job, but honestly, one of the biggest reasons I chose it was for the long breaks. I'm lucky to get about 13 weeks off. The downsides are the high stress level, and that we only get paid for the weeks we work - our paycheck is just (generally) spread out across breaks as well. Still couldn't see myself doing anything else.

To add something to your comment is that in France your can, by Law, use at least 4 weeks of vacation, and 2 of those 4 weeks have to be consecutive. The date to use those 4 weeks are between may and end of october.

@@kitsune2077 "The date to use those 4 weeks are between may and end of october" uh... what ? I'm french, and I've never seen that. I've always taken 2 weeks in December / January, 2 weeks in July / August, then the rest doted around in the year. PS : just looked at it. you are required to be allowed a consecutive 2 week vacation period between may and october. not 4.

@@seedz5132 alors je le refais en français 😁 Légalement : Tu PEUX poser jusqu'à 4 semaines consécutives (plus est interdit) entre le mois de mai et octobre. Il est obligatoire de poser 2 semaines consécutives sur cette période. Donc si tu poses 4 semaines de vacances, tu as 2 semaines des 4 qui sont obligatoires et doivent être consécutives. 😉 Et dans le code du travail tu DOIS poser 4 semaines entre le 1er mai et le 31 octobre. Si tu ne le fais pas cela rajoute les jours de fractionnement. En gros si tu ne poses pas 4 semaines (4 sem. consécutives ou 2 semaines consécutives obligatoires+2 semaines éparpillées) entre le 1er mai et le 31 octobre parceque ton employeur t'en empêche, alors il te dois des jours de congés supplémentaires appelé jour de fractionnement. Si tu ne poses pas ces 4 semaines de ta propre décision, ton employeur dois te faire signer un papier de renonciation aux jours de fractionnement. (Nb cette partie dépend de l'accord d'entreprise) payfit.com/fr/fiches-pratiques/conges-fractionnement/#:~:text=Les%20jours%20de%20fractionnement%20selon,31%20octobre%20de%20chaque%20ann%C3%A9e.

​@@kitsune2077Never saw that in France. It must be a special convention in your working sector. The law is 2,5 vacation days / month. Point.

Bonne explication

In Poland on full time job you have 26 days of paid vacation.

it is also the time when student replace workers as their summer jobs. I used to work in a bank during my student's vacations.

2 weeks is minimum. A lot of us take 3 weeks.

Bakeries for sure communicate with each other to go on holiday in a rotation

Or, as the saying goes, graveyards are full of irreplaceable people.

That's so nice, I'm happy for you!

@@t.a.yeah. thanks! Wish your country to do it too! :)

@@billy-bo_ Thank you, we already have it, I'm from Germany. :) But of course there still is a long way to go in this field ...

Yeah, and it's ok to sleep at work etc. but generally it's changing towards eu model.

damn the chain reaction when the ceo is leaving

Partly true, but those hours are not counted in in these statistics since they are illegal unpaid hours done "voluntarily". There are a lot more reasons why Japan's numbers in efficiency are low, main one is related to karoshi

I wonder if the data is affected by the year 2021 which was an abnormal year as different countries in different parts of the world were coming out of covid lockdowns in different ways. Some countries were still stuck with strict restrictions, with some sectors not actually open or working properly or only slowly returning to work, Japan may have been still stuck with the tightest restrictions alongside China.

Yeah i visited japan talked a lot with locals and that was what ive heard from few office workers. Alltho they were drunk on their lunch breaks as its socially acceptable there so im not sure how much efficient work they were going to get done when they go back to office.

Think it refers to the work the average US citizen provides to their employer

We are free because we don't have the government telling us we HAVE to do something. Unlike Europe, whose government and/or employers micromanage their lives and do tell them they MUST take time off. This is just a completely different mindset. If you don't like ours, fine. I don't like yours either.

@@cookielady7662 we get paid to be off work. Most people would rather have free time that is paid for rather than work that time. I get over 8 weeks paid vacation. Certainly would not swap that for only 2 weeks paid. And no paid? Forget it, that's indenture.

@@cookielady7662you’re free to be taken advantage of by your employer 🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@@cookielady7662 Not your government is telling you what to do or not to do, you boss is. Why? Because you government is NOT telling you boss what not to do to you.

Yeah, that is common also in the Nordics. It used to be return from summer vacation -money. It is a historical things, which was based on when good employees were hard to come buy... so this "rewards" was paid once the came back from the vacation (and not go work for a another company/employer). Similarly the vacation day amounts "might" be misleading. As in some countries (again history), a work week is calculated as Mon to Sat (so 6 days), even though people only work five days a week... So 30 days of vacation, actually means 5 weeks of vacation. Not sure if the graph was adjusted for this or not... But still, generally speaking. Europeans have 4 weeks off during the summer holiday period. And then another week off during the winter (often i Feb, a.k.a. sports holiday of skiing holiday). And in some countries, your holiday quota might raise due to local labor union negotiations if you've worked long enough for the company (or are simply just old enough). Plus naturally other more lax rules and agreements can also be made. Simply meaning, that in every country that follows the EU directive MUST give four weeks of vacation. Most countries and/or local agreement actual give more... and as a worker you can again negotiate even more paid vacation (albeit, you need to be a really valuable employee).

oh, and in some countries that "vacation money" can also be converted to actual vacation days (if you value free time from work more than $$$). I've done that a few times, and had 8 weeks off, plus still a bit of "vacation money" still to be paid by the employer. Which was nice.

So they baby sit you.

@@cookielady7662 Kinda. It's a guarantee, regulated by law, that you actually have money left over for vacation. In Norway, the minimum percentage allowed by law to be saved is 12,5% - whilst many companies give you even more of the salary as vacation money. I am 100% sure that if the legal requirement for this went away, and companies stopped doing this, that many people would not be able to think long-term and put off the money themselves - thus making their vacations horrible, and making them even worse workers when they got back from vacation than they were before.

I call it being treated as valued member of society. @@cookielady7662

In Poland you can move your vacation to next year - but you need use them till end of August (earlier was end of March). We have 20 - 26 paid vacation days (20 as you start working, 26 after few years )

​@@Rubeus1000in Lithuania its up to company.its their policy to let move vacation days to next year or not. But by law , after 3 years you lose yiur vacations...so you can accumulate 60 days of vacations, but not more

In Germany you have till the end of March to take the remaining vacation days from the year ago. I still have 10 days to waste, need to make up my mind where I wanna go. :) And then there's 25 more for 2024 (legal minimum, and I HAVE to take them). Fully paid, obvsly. We have to pay rent and food, vacation or not, after all!

I'm in Ireland also. I get 28 days paid leave plus public holidays and I can carry five days over to the next year. I can also buy leave if I really want to. I usually go over to mainland Europe and the UK two or three times a year.

@@recordingroadtrips Did you hear about Geocaching? This is great outdoor game that perfectly consume any amount of free days 😀

In America we brag about the size of our house and wealth. In Europe they brag about their unearned free stuff given to them by law, then they wonder why the biggest companies, military, GDP, etc. are all American. You can have a tiny flat and public transportation, or you can be rich, your choice, but you have to work for it

A good company, who engender loyaly. It works both ways. 😊

I found, vacation time spent at home is much less effective than time spent abroad. It doesn't have to be far, find a place with a good price/value ratio and just be away. It doesn't have to be far. The point is to be out of the daily grind - in a hotel, you don't have to make up your bed, don't have to fix breakfast, etc. Not having to worry about those things makes vacation more effective than just staying at home.

I honestly try to travel as much as possible and explore the world. I guess 4-5 times a year I am in some other countries

Personally, I enjoy vacation time at home to be more relaxing than vacation time away from home. I do like to travel away sometimes, but only occasionally.

If you get 30 days of vacation, people usually take one longer break per year. Two to three weeks in the summer. Maybe even longer. Then they often take around the holidays: Christmas into new year. That's a week at least. All that is half or two third of your vacation time. Then people take maybe a week off in autumn or in spring. Depending on school holidays etc. Or they take a long weekend for a short trip. And then you take a couple of days around other bank holidays, Easter holidays etc.. Or you have a private business appointment and you need one or two days off. Or they renovate their house for a week or do garden work just to relax a little. It's not six weeks vacation at the beach. Who can afford to travel for six week anyways.

@@realulli Still, it costs money to travel. Especially with a family. Staying at home is not the same as the daily grid with work etc. It depends on how you spend your time and not where you spend your time. Some people maybe only have a small apartment. Others have a lot of space. Some people like to travel, others like to have some quite time at home.

respect for your job!

Die verdient ihr auch in eurem Job 👍

Well deserved for the work you do!

Can you imagine how much good a nurse could do to help other people in 42 days?

Are these 35 hours considered full time? Everything less than 42 h is not a full time job in Switzerland.

@@Leenapanther No. 40h would be "full time". I am now a "senior engineer" ... but I haven't received a pay rise for over four years ... and have simply decided that I now only want to work 35 hours a week (for the same money). As my employer wants to keep me, he has simply accepted this.

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@@Leenapanther 35h can be full time. Metal & electronics industry has that in their tariffs since a couple of decades, for example.

There are exemptions though. 2020 or 2021 we were not allowed to take vacation at the department of health (the COVID chaos) and when I changed job the next year they had to pay out my unused days. It’s very rare for this to be allowed though.

some companies offer a system where you can choose between more vacation days and more salary though

if i get sick during my vacation, they return my off time.

But how can you be productive? Lol

@@tristanridley1601 very easily. When you're well rested, you're much more effective at work.

When I was in the army we used to get “toil” days if we had to work a weekend or had a duty on a public holiday. It was more of a verbal agreement than an official policy though.

Yes, we get 32 days paid holiday, plus the national holidays. Also flexitime and TOIL (time off in lieu). UK 🇬🇧

Depends on job, I work in Finland for 2 years now, I don't have free Saturdays or Sundays.

Also I'm not getting paid any yearly bonus

Hehe, I don't get bored on holidays, too

And you can't just get money instead of vacation days. That would be illegal.

@@reinhard8053 You can in Belgium, but usually only as a last resort. For instance if you really weren't able to take those days, being on sick leave for instance. But the employers won't accept to pay all of your holidays. Besides, you loose too much of that money in taxes and because of the increased revenue you could end up in a higher tax bracket too. So not really interesting.

And ppl that are called in at need, get 13.5% of the whole anual income paid in may.

I live in The Netherlands and get 20 vacation days a year by law, so that’s a minimum. Because I work in construction (on HQ), we have a very decent central labor agreement, CAO, which guarantees you more days. So I get another 8 days, inherited from the times that there was high unemployment and labor had to be redistributed, we call it ADV days. Because I’m over 55 years old, I get another 8 senior days. And we get another 13 days payed out in your salary which can be bought back. About 10 years ago we got a big pay raise for these days. So in total I have 49 days, of which I take 36 days, so I keep the extra salary.

Yeah, and you get full pay during thee whole 25-35 days.

Oh I love that idea of getting more rest as you grow older ! I wish we had the same amount in France. I work for National Post and as a mail woman I only get 3 more days after 55…

It’s safe to say that Denmark, Norway and Sweden have the same vacation laws, starting at 25 days (5 weeks).

well that czechs economy and work system has issues thats so widely known that even czech people admit it and make videos about it. ...and humouristically portraying the standard czech dude bathing in beer instead of water, having a mullet haircut and always wearing the strangest of clothes

There is a difference between taking time off and paid leave. I could talk to my employer and take half a year or longer of unpaid leave (with preparation time of course), because they are always looking for more qualified workers and wouldn’t find a replacement anyway, but that’s just not paying when no work is done. Paid vacation is completely different. It’s part of your salary. It’s like more like an additional paid month per year.

@@ThePlumbeus Sure, some places you can take as long as you want of unpaid leave. Usually you can't expect to just come back to work like nothing happened though, have all your benefits uninterrupted, lunches paid...bosses happy to see you, etc.

6 months? What do you do for a living mate?

I don't. I am fortunate in that I am sufficiently wealthy now not to work so I retired early. I have decided that life is too short and so I am going to make the most of it. I can't see the point in continuing to make lots of money to then drop dead and leave it to someone else to enjoy, not to mention the taxman.@@LeperMessiah2

​@@LeperMessiah2he's unemployed! 😂🤣😅

6weeks

I think the correct designation is "economically inactive".@@tamielizabethallaway2413

Again, doesn't seem like most Europeans get it. Sure, there are some Americans that want ridiculous amounts of time off, but many of us are fine with what we have. There's way more freedom in not having someone, most especially the government, constantly in your business telling you that you have to take vacation days. We're all about individualism here.

​@@cookielady7662Same mirrored "issue" is those in the US longing for a System where a longer leave is atleast a Possibility. In the end, you are your master everywhere. Individuality is your own thing, less vacay, more, semi-vacant, whatever you need, different hurdles to get it. The vacation time and its use is baked into how the countries work. Half of Europe is part time small form farming, because that's what you have in your backyard. Picking thrash, collecting scrap and paper, is a school time mainstay. Keeps people modest and involved with nature, saves money and stays in place where propaganda for "grander", lobbied services would be found in no time. You cannot be forced to la down and Rest, you do what is needed, as you see fit. We semand rest, as europeans were brought up in a time, where only "worky work-work", was mandatiry labour, the rest was up to you, small kings, everyone on his own, payong tax, and doing work on lords Fields, or being a paid, or paying keeper. I am not joking when saying that half people live like a fantasy, easy mode, Michigan/Wisconsin resident, who also functions in a denser network where there's less mandatory travel, as the distances are 1/5 of the US for most. The practice of gardening and orchardry (and widespread beekeeping) is also a part of optimizing your surroundings until the levels of sustainable, middle age like, kind of point, where every bit of land has its caretaker, and there is less "abandoned" land, and that land also doesn't suffer much, as it is well taken care of, and is deliberately used to naturally(read in the mindspace of the locals) support produce production without swathes of strained land, and big farming is not done as "bigly", and is supportes by mostly naturally abundant water(for the most part). corporations cannot fir example take natural water, like some South states and their Nestlé and the like induced related droughts, hell there is too many likeminded people next to each other for that to ever fly and manifest. That's just the benefits of the "seemingly restrictive/uncomfortable" realities of living in Europe, where people are not as divided as for what to do with their land. Everybody, Portugal to Ukraine and the Baltics, is one foot in the garden, or their relatives are.

The obligatory number of vacation days is 23 (work days, without counting weekends and holidays) and there the holidays amount to 16 days (national, regional and local) a few usually fall on weekends. If you plan your vacation around weekwnds+holidays you can reach the described vacation time but it may vary. For example: Semana Santa (easter week) has one national holiday on Viernes Santos (Good Friday) and all autonous regions adds another day on either Thursday (most) or Monday after easter so for 3-4 vacation days you get a 7-8 days but that's thenonly holiday where it's guaranteed. During Christmass when the 25th is on the wekend, and so is New Year, you're left only with Reyes (Jan 6th) so you need to use more vacation days but since I live in Catalunya so we also have Sant Esteve on the 26th, unless the 25th is on Suturday :-(. At least the city makes sure that the local holidays are never on the weekend (one is always on a Monday and the other is if it falls on a weekend it is moved to the nearest work day).

​@@cookielady7662nos da mucha pena en España (Europa) perder nuestra libertad individual y que nos obliguen a tener 4 semanas de vacaciones, además de dias en Navidad, Semana Santa, y en las fiestas de nuestra ciudad o pueblo. Y también nos da mucha pena ser poco trabajadores, ya que siendo 47 millones de habitantes tenemos 81 millones de visitantes al año 😂