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10 total days off would be below normal. Usually, vacation time is quoted as an addition on top of normal holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving and other day
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
10 total days off would be below normal. Usually, vacation time is quoted as an addition on top of normal holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving and other days.
Average professional job has about 8-9 paid holiday days, plus vacation time on top. My worst number of vacation days was 10 at my first job right out of college (they had to change after they struggled to attract employees) but every other job has been more than that.
But only accounting for 10 unpaid days per year would barely cover minimum federal holidays, so it’s not realistic. It’s equivalent to saying you’re never going to take time off unless the company is shut down for a federal holiday.
- Scarblac 5y agoI'm quite sure the five weeks he mentioned don't include official holidays. In the Netherlands it's also five weeks on top of a number of official holidays, and we gave the lowest number of those in the EU (7 iirc, some of which may be weekend Sat's in some years, like Christmas now). Of course good companies typically don't offer only the minimum.
- BrandoElFollito 5y agoIn France you get 5-8 weeks of vacation that are counted in addition to the official days off. In general you work 272 days a year and the rest is vacation and days off (this is also the reason we get a different amount of days off every year). I have about 40 working days off, of which the company can choose the dates of 10.
- kileywm 5y ago272 days is very high. Full time work in the US with 0 vacation (typically is 10-20 days) and 0 company holidays (typically is 5-15 days) is 250 days. Perhaps you mistyped?
- Msw242 5y agoDon't they have a 4 day work week in France?
- BrandoElFollito 5y agoNo we don't. We have a concept of "35 hours of work per week" but it gest complicated once your time is not metered per the hour. People whose work is counted in days get special "extra vacation days to catch up" (this is more or less the real name), around 15 per year I think.
- sofixa 5y agoSome places are starting to introduce it, but it's very rare. However the standard work day is 7 hours.
- BrandoElFollito 5y agoOh yes, sorry - I meant 227 (too late to edit)
- Glawen 5y agoIt's 218 working days in some union contracts (convention collective) usually, and 216 in Alsace.