I'm Lithuanian guy working for American company. There is one factual errors in that article about Lithuanians public holidays: while we might have 13 public ho

I'm Lithuanian guy working for American company. There is one factual errors in that article about Lithuanians public holidays: while we might have 13 public holidays but if public holiday matches with Sunday (like Mother's day) we don't get extra free day on Monday. Therefore we have approximately one week extra to four weeks of holidays we can take per year. So we have 5 weeks in total. Let's say in USA people have 3 weeks (2 vacation weeks + 1 week of public holidays). Here is why I completely disagree with author's conclusion. We have 52 weeks per year. 3 or 5 weeks from that perspective is minor amount of work done. US people just spend 4.4% more time in the office but that doesn't mean they work harder (it is different for blue collars, of course). I personally never felt working less than my US colleagues. Now about enjoyment of life. While I agree that those 4 weeks of annual leave makes a big difference (e.g. you can disconnect from your work and refresh your head) it is only small part of enjoyment of life. I will just say that here in Lithuania we have biggest suicide rate in the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra...).