U.S. Employees Are the Happiest
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U.S. Employees Are the Happiest
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#2what kind of bs propaganda report is this?
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#3What about our lack of vacation days and holidays?
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#4What about our lack of vacation days and holidays?
There's pizza and cake in the breakroom, let's all stay until 6:45!
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#5US employees are brainwashed to conflate identity with job.
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#6There is no link to the original study. There are two links within the text, but neither of them link to the study. In fact, one of those two links is misleadingly presented as the link to the study, but is not actually the link to the study.
Challenge question for stats and math nerds: if 93% of a sample of 1000 Americans claim they enjoy their job, and if 91% of a sample of ~650 Netherlanders claim that they love their job, then what are the odds that this is a statistical fluke and that a greater portion of Netherlanders enjoy their jobs than Americans?
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#7What about our lack of vacation days and holidays?
Perks don't necessarily make people happier with their jobs, even if state mandated.
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#8There is no link to the original study. There are two links within the text, but neither of them link to the study. In fact, one of those two links is misleadingly presented as the link to the study, but is not actually the link to the study. Challenge question for stats and math nerds: if 93% of a sample of 1000 Americans claim they enjoy their job, and if 91% of a sample of ~650 Netherlanders claim that they love t…
If the methodology is good, the chance of a fluke is pretty low, given the 2% difference and large sample size.
It is much more likely that the result would be thrown off by a sampling error.
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#9What about our lack of vacation days and holidays?
Americans intentionally don't utilize a large number of paid vacation days each year. Work guilt may play a role:
"Americans left 768 million days of paid time off unused last year, according to research released by the U.S. Travel Association. The study found that 55 percent of Americans did not use all of their paid vacation time."
"More than half of U.S. workers ― 54 percent — reported feeling guilty about taking vacation time either sometimes, often or always, according to a survey of more than 2,000 full-time workers in the United States by TurnKey Vacation Rentals."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2019/08/28/what-does-a...
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#10What about our lack of vacation days and holidays?
Americans intentionally don't utilize a large number of paid vacation days each year. Work guilt may play a role: "Americans left 768 million days of paid time off unused last year, according to research released by the U.S. Travel Association. The study found that 55 percent of Americans did not use all of their paid vacation time." "More than half of U.S. workers ― 54 percent — reported feeling guilty about taking…
> Americans intentionally don't utilize a large number of paid vacation days each year. Work guilt may play a role
It may, but America has relatively weak protections for paid or even merely job-protected medical, family, or other leaves and fairly weak unemployment; accruing vacation balances as a partial substitute is a common strategy; while it may not fully substitute for any of those, it a minimum provides an amount obligated to be cashed out at termination that can buffer the impacts of not having the other protections.
> More than half of U.S. workers ― 54 percent — reported feeling guilty about taking vacation time either sometimes, often or always
But is this “work guilt” or guilt about the impact on personal/family security?