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I think this is because all Americans implicitly know that the "paid" vacation will come out of their salaries. 20 days of paid vacation (double what the averag
by runako 3y ago
I think this is because all Americans implicitly know that the "paid" vacation will come out of their salaries. 20 days of paid vacation (double what the average American worker gets) would cost around $2,500 at the average hourly wage. We have decided to structure our economy such that most Americans need that money to survive, which makes added vacation untenable.
- dtech 3y agoI don't see how this is any different than public holidays.
- runako 3y agoIt's not, but you hit the interesting point that we're already at a number of public holidays where employers don't automatically grant all the federal holidays. (I have seen employers make holidays "floaters" and let people choose which floaters they want to take off. Implicit is that they can't take all the floaters without using vacation days.) So adding another 10-20 would likely not change actual PTO all that much.
- maxerickson 3y agoUS holidays don't apply to private workers. Lots of companies do offer paid days off on those days, but it would be a new thing to make them required paid days off.
- TheNewsIsHere 3y agoAnd some companies go beyond and -expect- you to take a minimum number of paid days off, even sometimes in excess of giving you all the jurisdictional holidays off. I used to think that the module in high school where we learned about “How The Other Half Lives” was provided as historical context. As an adult I’ve learned that the US continues to be a case study in two halves. A shame, as it needn’t be the way it is. Edit: typo