I live in the midwestern United States, and it’s really sad. I know people who take pride in never using their vacation days.
Honestly when I run into such a person I think it’s a coping mechanism.
Yeah, seems like it. Same with people who brag about only getting a few hours of sleep each night.
Mh??? I always heard that Japan gives very little vacation days due to having a lot of holidays and its also expected to gift a few of these days to their employer. This statistic confuses me. Can someone japanese help out?
Japanese people are serious about their holidays and typically take golden week, which is a full week off in May.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Week_(Japan)
A few years before the pandemic I visited Japan during Golden week, and Tokyo was basically empty. There were no cars on the street, there was no traffic, and the trains were only half full. Businesses were just closed, and I visited the financial district among other places; however Akihabara and other tourist districts were still very busy.
Japanese have a total of 16 official national holidays vs the US 11. However, people actually take them off, since many companies just close down entirely for those holidays, unlike say President’s Day or Juneteenth in the US where everyone but banks and schools are still open.
And all of this is on top of their actual vacation time.
This website better explains it:
https://www.tokhimo.com/post/how-annual-leave-in-japan-work?lang=en
Interesting to see Japan up there. Typically you only hear about their terrible work/life balance. I can only assume their many days off are for cultural festivals and national holidays?
What happens to the days not used, in the US? My unused days just stays in my pool until I use them some other year. I get 35 days a year but I currently have like 60-70 saved up. I’m gonna use most of them on a long vacation in a couple of years.
Has to be some sort of statistical error with the result for Japan. Most companies don’t give close to 22 days off, and the amount of people taking 26 days off is even lower than that.
Gotta imagine that the survey was poorly phrased and the Japanese respondents counted public holidays instead of paid leave.
language shouldn’t be a barrier when conducting a serious study. was it serious thou ? idk
Some people may save up all these days to get one long sabbatical or extra payout once they quit. In other places, you just have to take your holidays or lose them
it should be cumulable, that is the fair way
Denmark has 5 weeks (25 days) of paid vacation by law, and many companies offer a 6th week as benefits.
Pretty much everyone spends all their paid vacation. But you can even transfer one week of vacation to the next year if you want.
If the company for some reason doesn’t allow a worker to take all their vacation, the worker can require an equivalent amount of money being paid out as wages.
If a worker decides to not make use of all their vacation, it is lost with no compensation. Pretty much everyone avoids wasting/losing vacation.
If you happen to get sick during a vacation you can even be compensated and get those vacation days back, to be spent at another opportunity.
