I have 10 days of holiday here in Canada. At my previous job in the UK I had 21 (excluding bank holidays). A few months after I moved here the enormity of the s

I have 10 days of holiday here in Canada. At my previous job in the UK I had 21 (excluding bank holidays). A few months after I moved here the enormity of the situation hit me and I nearly cried. Sure, the average salary is much higher, but I've realised that a day off is worth much more to me than my daily wage. People are no more productive here than there; work tends to take up the time you give it. Burnout rates seem to be much higher in North America, people are more tired and less traveled. Because companies here have more control over when an employee can take a holiday, team members take holidays in groups "when it's good for the team", meaning that there are a couple of weeks when absolutely nothing can get done even for those who aren't on vacation. Another closely-related issue is sick leave. In the UK the occasional sick day isn't usually subtracted from your holiday allowance. Here no-one wants to be off sick because they lose a valuable day off, so they come in to work and spread viruses around to everyone else. Having said that, I don't think the 3-day week would help. I feel that to improve productivity, one needs a period of time to completely wind down and three days isn't enough for that. I think more week-long vacations would be a better solution.