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Agreed. We need European-style month-long vacations in the US. And sabbaticals every few years. Also we should start looking at 36 and 32-hour workweeks. We're

Agreed. We need European-style month-long vacations in the US. And sabbaticals every few years. Also we should start looking at 36 and 32-hour workweeks. We're 20x more productive than 40 years ago, yet still work the same hours or more for pay increases that barely keep up with inflation.

dopidopHN 5y ago
As a European living in the US since a decade. It starts to impact my mental health. I went from 8 weeks / years to 4 or 5. Currently 3. Ha. I cannot recharge the same way ( meaning : travel for weeks at a time, or chill hard for 2 weeks in a row ) It’s flexible all right. But I feel like I’m always working somehow. Work is near, lurking. I’m nursing a nice little depression that I feel a road trip would cure easily. Too bad I need to keep my last week of vacation for Christmas week.
- ChuckNorris89 5y ago
  Mind sharing where exactly in Europe is 8 weeks vacation the norm? In Austria it's 5 weeks for everyone but law and that's what most tech companies will give you as well.
  - shell0x 5y ago
    I don't think there are 8 weeks, but 6 weeks? Spain has 30 days vacation if I'm not mistaken.
    - dopidopHN 5y ago
      Yeah I’ve redone the Math in a sibling comment. 1) it was 7 and some change. Not 8w 2 ) due to a special arrangement with my employer.
  - dopidopHN 5y ago
    I’m French. 5 weeks is the minimum. Then we work 40h/week but legally we should do 35h. So that give us a extra week. Those 6 weeks are the norm. But it become increasingly common to ask for another week as a perk it you are a skill worker. I my last French job I had weird hours and overtime in the weekend because of the industry I was in. It’s leads 7 and some changes weeks. So, not 8.
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- shell0x 5y ago
  That sounds really bad man. I'm originally from Germany,but lived previously in Asia(Singapore/Hong Kong), New Zealand and now Australia. I never got less than 3 weeks vacation. The US is a good environment to innovate, but it's mostly good for companies and not people.

dopidopHN 5y ago

As a European living in the US since a decade. It starts to impact my mental health. I went from 8 weeks / years to 4 or 5. Currently 3. Ha. I cannot recharge the same way ( meaning : travel for weeks at a time, or chill hard for 2 weeks in a row ) It’s flexible all right. But I feel like I’m always working somehow. Work is near, lurking. I’m nursing a nice little depression that I feel a road trip would cure easily. Too bad I need to keep my last week of vacation for Christmas week.

ChuckNorris89 5y ago
Mind sharing where exactly in Europe is 8 weeks vacation the norm? In Austria it's 5 weeks for everyone but law and that's what most tech companies will give you as well.
- shell0x 5y ago
  I don't think there are 8 weeks, but 6 weeks? Spain has 30 days vacation if I'm not mistaken.
  - dopidopHN 5y ago
    Yeah I’ve redone the Math in a sibling comment. 1) it was 7 and some change. Not 8w 2 ) due to a special arrangement with my employer.
- dopidopHN 5y ago
  I’m French. 5 weeks is the minimum. Then we work 40h/week but legally we should do 35h. So that give us a extra week. Those 6 weeks are the norm. But it become increasingly common to ask for another week as a perk it you are a skill worker. I my last French job I had weird hours and overtime in the weekend because of the industry I was in. It’s leads 7 and some changes weeks. So, not 8.
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shell0x 5y ago
That sounds really bad man. I'm originally from Germany,but lived previously in Asia(Singapore/Hong Kong), New Zealand and now Australia. I never got less than 3 weeks vacation. The US is a good environment to innovate, but it's mostly good for companies and not people.