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Noooo. They seriously only give 2 weeks holiday a year? that's insane.
by jeremyjarvis 15y ago
Noooo. They seriously only give 2 weeks holiday a year? that's insane.
- bitops 15y agoThat's very normal in the US.
- mhd 15y agoIf I recall correctly, the US is the only developed country without mandatory minium paid employment leave (federal employees excepted). Which small-government fans might accept readily, but it also has amongst the lowest actual average vacation times… Apparently free citizens want to work. (One statistic had the Canadian average lower, though) Strangely enough, this doesn't seem to have a straight-forward correlation with yearly hours worked. Italians have about the same number as Americans, but 20 mandatory days and quite a lot of Catholic holidays. Koreans and the Greek seam to top that list, although I'm currently not a big believer in Greek statistics…
- ArbitraryLimits 15y agoItalian office hours are something like 8-12 and 2-8 or so. The (official) workday is much longer there,with a nice break in the middle.
- srdev 15y ago2 weeks vacation plus 6 days personal days when you start. After a year, they bump it up to 3 weeks. They raise it to 4 weeks after 6 years of employment. Not too terrible, really, but not great either.
- jsolson 15y agoTwo in year one, three in year two. Plus an additional 6 "personal days". That being said, I've yet to actually take a vacation day at Amazon, despite regularly getting automated e-mails about it from HR. I send a polite OOTO e-mail to my team and that seems to be sufficient. This may very from team to team and manager to manager.
- kachhalimbu 15y agoI get 7 days paid holiday here in Taiwan. and additional 1 week as a part of Chinese new year. 2 weeks/year is twice better to me.