One detail: -paid- time off is accrued in most eu countries. What happens more or less is that instead of getting your “full” pay for a working day, you stash a

One detail: -paid- time off is accrued in most eu countries. What happens more or less is that instead of getting your “full” pay for a working day, you stash a certain amount of money away, and you pick up money from that bucket when taking time off. The important part of PTO in EU is that’s guaranteed that you can take it, or even that you MUST take it. If the total amount of money per year is the same, it doesn’t make a lot of difference whether it’s paid or unpaid.