It's the day after Christmas: Are you reading this blog post from work or are you home for the holidays? How is your vacation time as compared to other workers from around the world?
Here's a graph from the Economist, based on the data compiled by consultancy group Mercer:
North Americans are more industrious than South Americans [...]. Asians work harder than Europeans. Among the feckless workers from the old continent, those in the troubled economies of Greece, Spain and Portugal have among the most generous holiday allowances.
What's the statutory minimum time off companies in the United States have to give its employees? None: the chart above showed a typical 15 days time off that most companies give its workers, but that's not required by law.
The Mercer Report - via The Dish
AND no one was expected to do his job while he was away. The work just sat there and waited for him to get back.
LOL
They've got to AT LEAST weight the average here by the Actual % of the population that's employed.
# Days of vaca. are meaningless if only 4 guys have jobs.
Also, other countries take holidays and office hours MUCH more seriously than we do.
1Ex:-Try getting anything in France on a holiday,
or going to a restaurant between the hours of 2:30 and 5:30,
even in the cities much less the country,
and you will be SOL.
-Now contrast that with our Convenience stores, or even NYC where something is always open.