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Two or even three weeks seems very unhealthy to me: - You need a longer break to seriously disconnect: at least two weeks. - Around Christmas/New Year you pro
by danieldk 12y ago
Two or even three weeks seems very unhealthy to me:
- You need a longer break to seriously disconnect: at least two weeks.
- Around Christmas/New Year you probably want to be around family and friends: one week.
- At least a week distributed over the year to do something fun with your kid, visit that distant friend, etc.
Maybe it's because I come from Western Europe, where getting 5 weeks (25-30 days) off in total is pretty normal. But I cannot imagine not breaking yourself at some point with only two weeks of vacation.
Also, as siblings say. This 'no upper limit' makes no sense. If you give e.g. 25 days people know that that's their right and are more likely to take it then 'it's unlimited, but all the good workers take only 2-3 weeks'.
- javery 12y agoI phrased it poorly - we get off the week around the holidays as the company closes down. I also take probably another week off for random days here or there.
- arjie 12y agoYou serve ads. That's necessarily high-availability, especially around Christmas, when people are trying to grab eyeballs. If the company closes down, who's making sure everything is all right? Or maybe your stuff is that reliable? That's pretty impressive.
- javery 12y agoIt is pretty reliable, but we also have alerts to let us know if there are problems and support staff work out times to be available.
- johnward 12y agoSome people in the US get no paid vacation at all and work on public holidays.
- steveklabnik 12y agoBack when I used to work at a pizza shop, the only two days a year we were closed were Christmas and Thanksgiving. Easter day was a half-day. Nobody was allowed to request off New Years or the Super Bowl.