Most countries provide between 20 and 40 paid days off
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#2What is going on in the US is nothing short of shameful.
Re: Most countries provide between 20 and 40 paid days off
#3What is going on in the US is nothing short of shameful.
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#4The US has generally higher wages than Europe and lower taxation rates. Those paid days off are not free.
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#5The country that does not, invented more or less every modern technology (transistors, ICs, wifi, microwaves, cellular). Mayhaps there is something to it.
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#6Why does it say 0 for the US? You have Thanksgiving, Christmas, 4th of July and more? Are they unpaid days off?
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#7What is going on in the US is nothing short of shameful.
https://www.bls.gov/charts/employee-benefits/paid-leave-sick...
Could be better for sure, but a graph showing the US as having 0 days of paid days off because the federal government doesn't mandate anything is misleading at best. Average US worker after 1 year of employment earns 7 sick days and 11 vacation days. And likely has some state and federal holidays off as well, and could very well qualify for state required PTO and sick time. But that doesn't get clicks and attention.
More data, if one is curious:
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#10I guess thinking from first principles probably the ideal is neither government mandating days off nor their behind terribly hard to come by.
Better imo would be - if I personally accomplished something meaningful and valuable and 'earned' time, then I am strongly incentivized to take time. Also it taking time will help my health and wellness meaningfully then I should also be incentivized to do so.
But that seems impossible to setup if we aren't all our own business owning entrepreneurs.