I guess in the US we have "market based" paid time off like we do with so many other things. The results are the same. Inequality. Poor people put through the grinder and get nothing while the rich just watch numbers go up while life stays exactly the same.
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USA should be white. They don't even get up to light blue status.
The colour scheme sucks.
Cursed GIS color scheme
United States over here with literally zero… haha!
not even independence day. absolute cucks to capitalism.
Seeing a chart like this is absolutely insane.
I understand folks are debating the accuracy of some of the European countries here, but United States is fucking ridiculous… what a shit show.
land of the free (TM)!
Free to lie dying in the streets while everyone serious over your body.
Ew, what an eyesore, can’t you go be sick and die on someone else’s block please.
TBF, the last time I worked a job that offered no PTO was before COVID.
These days people won't except minimum wage shit jobs with no benefits. If a job becomes too shitty or demanding, Americans just quietly quit and move on to the next thing.
Love how 30 looks almost as pale as 0
The Netherlands is not the worst to live, but I for one could use a few days extra off for sure…
Part of me doesn't believe this because based on my experience with our Mumbai office those fuckers are constantly off.
Color scale dumb af and USA is fucking backward.
You’re not wrong. I have >30 paid days off a year when you include the holidays, but a lot of my peers have zero. They don’t understand what it means to wake up one morning and just be like… nah, I don’t want to go to work today.
I think this is a good statistic but I'd also recommend looking up the average amount of hours worked per country - I think that paints a better picture of how much time you'll spend working.
I moved to Germany two years ago and the work has been fantastically human-centric, major life over work expectations, and I have no doubt that doesn't apply to everyone in the country but it's been very nice.
The image says that it is including public holidays, but Spain’s number is not.
There are 14 mandated public holidays (8 at national level, 4 by region and 2 local ones).
And Belgium is also missing 12 days since the workweek is 38 hours but in effect that's just given out as 12 more holidays.
That wouldn't make sense in this graph as then you'd get into the minutia of that happening everywhere like Québec being 37.5h as full time
I'm pretty sure that the number for Switzerland is wrong. There's at least 20 days of paid leave and one federal holiday, but in each canton there's at least 6 additional holidays, which makes for an absolute minimum of 27 days of paid leave.
USA, leader of the ~~free~~ indentured servitude world!
Good grief, this map really puts it in perspective.
France's famous 35-hour-week law means that you legally have to get holidays in lieu of weekly hours worked over that number. In my job I worked (theoretically) 37.5 hours, which earned me 47 paid days off. Not including public holidays.
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