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> Then I moved to Europe and boy what a change! People here work 32-40 hours max and take bucket loads of vacation. Let me guess: you didn't move to the UK? Ge
by switch007 11y ago
> Then I moved to Europe and boy what a change! People here work 32-40 hours max and take bucket loads of vacation.
Let me guess: you didn't move to the UK? Generalising about Europe is difficult.
I know people on a 42.5 hour contract, 1/2 hour lunch! My last job was 9am-6pm with 1 hour lunch (40 hour contract (plus 1 hour commute each way)). I'm now happily on a 37.5 hour contract with 1 hour lunch.
- eterm 11y agoCompared to the US, the UK's legal minimum of 28 days[1] vacation is a bucket load! And most full time UK workers are 40 or 37.5 hours, which is still well below what many US workers report their hours as. [1] https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/entitlement https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/entitlement (This includes bank holidays, typically companies will mandate the bank holidays and give 20 days to be chosen freely.)
- switch007 11y agoTrue, the point about vacation time is valid. Although I'm talking contracted hours. I haven't looked up any stats of reported hours in the UK.
- paulojreis 11y agoNor Portugal, nor Spain...
- scott_karana 11y ago> Let me guess: you didn't move to the UK? Generalising about Europe is difficult. Half the time, the UK pretends it's not part of Europe, and the other half of the time, complains for not being included. I think we both knew that GP meant "continental Europe". ;)
- FlyingSnake 11y ago> Let me guess: you didn't move to the UK? Germany. But I've heard from friends and family in NL, Spain and PT that it's similar laid back attitudes in those countries too. No idea about UK, but I've heard they've ~25 vacation days too.
- DanBC 11y agoUK tends to have longer working hours, but worse productivity, than other EU contries. There's more use of abusive stuff like zero hour contracts.