In many parts of Europe, it’s common for workers to take off weeks at a time, especially during the summer. Envious Americans say it’s time for the U.S. to follow suit.

Some 66% of U.S. workers say companies should adopt extended vacation policies, like a month off in August, in their workplaces, according to a Morning Consult survey of 1,047 U.S. adults.

  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    My cousins from Holland just came to Canada for a 6 week vacation. Can’t imagine just up and leaving work for 6 weeks in a row. Would be great, but also the workplace would probably fall apart lol.

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      1 year ago

      Dutchie here; while this certainly happens, it’s not the norm at all. Everyone working full time in the Netherlands gets a minimum of 20 paid days off per year. Many companies increase this to 25-ish days, with some outliers going up to 40+. At my company, taking >2 weeks has to be requested far in advance and planned around. If my prolonged leave would cause the workplace to fall apart, it wouldn’t get approved.

      That said, yea it’s definitely better here in Europe regarding vacations :)

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        1 year ago

        Of course, if one employee being away would cause a company to fall apart, us Dutch would conclude management is completely incompetent, and tell them that.

        A 3 week vacation is pretty normal, here. But we do plan those ahead. That means you might not be able to take it on the specific dates you have in mind. But not that you won’t be able to take it!

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          1 year ago

          if one employee being away would cause a company to fall apart, us Dutch would conclude management is completely incompetent, and tell them that

          Here in the US, some people say they can’t take time off like they’re proud of it somehow. Maybe it’s just Stockholm syndrome.

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            1 year ago

            I took a week off and saw emails upon my return that they almost called me about a security issue, but implemented alternative mitigations.

            Jokes on them, I would not have answered. It’s not my fault that I’m a single point of failure in the org. I don’t roll over and take that shit.