Study Finds That Asians Take Fewest Vacation Days, Europeans Take Most
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#2Japanese workers are offered an average of twenty days off each year and take only twelve, leaving eight unused vacation days lying on the table.
No lie, that's a qualified success: it used to be 14 days offered and 8 exercised in Japan, as recently as a few years ago. (The 2006ish timeframe? Read it in a work-related report. [+])
[+] Proving once again that you can almost never underestimate how bad the Japanese work culture is, the actual stats from 平成19年就労条件総合調査結果の概況 (covering 2006) were, at companies above 1,000 employees, 9.7 days offered and 5 actually used. You might think "Well maybe that's the megacorps being shoddy" but the actual numbers get worse as you go down the size-of-employer table.
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#3Shocker. They really needed a study to determine this?
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#4Japanese workers are offered an average of twenty days off each year and take only twelve, leaving eight unused vacation days lying on the table. No lie, that's a qualified success: it used to be 14 days offered and 8 exercised in Japan, as recently as a few years ago. (The 2006ish timeframe? Read it in a work-related report. [+]) [+] Proving once again that you can almost never underestimate how bad the Japanese wor…
That's just scary. It definitely shows how much culture can change/warp our ideas about existence. Although that few days off probably is a significant factor in heightened Japanese suicide rates.
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#5Japanese workers are offered an average of twenty days off each year and take only twelve, leaving eight unused vacation days lying on the table. No lie, that's a qualified success: it used to be 14 days offered and 8 exercised in Japan, as recently as a few years ago. (The 2006ish timeframe? Read it in a work-related report. [+]) [+] Proving once again that you can almost never underestimate how bad the Japanese wor…
That's just scary. It definitely shows how much culture can change/warp our ideas about existence. Although that few days off probably is a significant factor in heightened Japanese suicide rates.
I am not sure the days off to hours per week ratio for a sane life..
I.e. I hear 12 days off and I shrug. I hear 18 hour workdays and never seeing your family and my jaw drops.
I think if I worked 20h weeks, 0 days off would be okay. You never get THAT burned out over a week that the weekend can't cure you.
But if I worked 80 hour weeks, I would need 30 days off per year to stay long term sane.
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#6I worked for a Swedish company. Because of holidays, vacation leave, maternity and paternity leave, and sick days, there were employees of the company that I never saw. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but it took quite a while to get used to it.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's just scary. It definitely shows how much culture can change/warp our ideas about existence. Although that few days off probably is a significant factor in heightened Japanese suicide rates.
I am not sure the days off to hours per week ratio for a sane life.. I.e. I hear 12 days off and I shrug. I hear 18 hour workdays and never seeing your family and my jaw drops. I think if I worked 20h weeks, 0 days off would be okay. You never get THAT burned out over a week that the weekend can't cure you. But if I worked 80 hour weeks, I would need 30 days off per year to stay long term sane.
Of course, that makes perfect sense. It is the number of days off being so low combined with things like this: http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/09/news/japan-work-salaryman/ that make me truly concerned. The combination of hours and lack of days off surely takes a toll on mental health and productivity.
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#8Japanese workers are offered an average of twenty days off each year and take only twelve, leaving eight unused vacation days lying on the table. No lie, that's a qualified success: it used to be 14 days offered and 8 exercised in Japan, as recently as a few years ago. (The 2006ish timeframe? Read it in a work-related report. [+]) [+] Proving once again that you can almost never underestimate how bad the Japanese wor…
Do they have any way to figure in the part where salarymen often work Saturdays?
If you add in the shorter weekends, I'm not sure if you even get to the equivalent of zero days off.
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#9Not only that, in Asia they work longer hours too. When I visited Japan, I noticed rush hour in Tokyo would start round about 6pm and would go on until 10pm.
Compare that with London, starts around 5pm and pretty much everyone is dispersed by 7pm.
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#10Not working at all is the inevitable (awesome) future of humanity.