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> I'm honestly surprised that more companies haven't invested in broader vacation policies. As an EU person, the existence of places where people never stop wo

• icedchai 3y ago
  I suspect many of these comments are from people in the 20% that actually do most of the work. There are plenty of jobs where people almost never start working. I have friends who've worked corporate jobs doing little-to-nothing for years at a time, collecting 6 figure salaries until the move on to the next gig.
• n_ary 3y ago
  Unfortunately, I have yet to find a place as such in EU. In my 11 years of career, I have yet to see myself or my team ever stopping. While I hopped several jobs, everywhere is same, super ambitious people working non-stop and then get stern e-mail from HR that their previous year’s whole annual leave is due and must be taken before March 31. Fortunately, I’ve seen within same org, teams which are always on vacation or are collecting pay with 4h coffee breaks and 2h morning breakfast, but sadly I never managed to land into one of those teams. The “non-stop” kind is majority in EU, but somehow we like to tout the “wow must be US thing”. At this point, I believe these comments are coming from some minority group from a very specific country in EU.