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Color scale dumb af and USA is fucking backward.
You’re not wrong. I have >30 paid days off a year when you include the holidays, but a lot of my peers have zero. They don’t understand what it means to wake up one morning and just be like… nah, I don’t want to go to work today.
I think this is a good statistic but I’d also recommend looking up the average amount of hours worked per country - I think that paints a better picture of how much time you’ll spend working.
I moved to Germany two years ago and the work has been fantastically human-centric, major life over work expectations, and I have no doubt that doesn’t apply to everyone in the country but it’s been very nice.
it’s a wonderful metric because i can look at a graph and weep at sweden being basically the only country where hours worked per year has very noticably gone up for a pretty long time now…
United States over here with literally zero… haha!
land of the free ™!
Free to lie dying in the streets while everyone serious over your body.
Ew, what an eyesore, can’t you go be sick and die on someone else’s block please.
sorry sir but your insurance doesn’t cover dying here, you’ll have to go somewhere else if you want to pass on. That’ll be $5000 sir.
not even independence day. absolute cucks to capitalism.
Seeing a chart like this is absolutely insane.
I understand folks are debating the accuracy of some of the European countries here, but United States is fucking ridiculous… what a shit show.
TBF, the last time I worked a job that offered no PTO was before COVID.
These days people won’t except minimum wage shit jobs with no benefits. If a job becomes too shitty or demanding, people just quit and move on to the next thing.
USA, leader of the
freeindentured servitude world!Good grief, this map really puts it in perspective.
The colour scheme sucks.
I guess in the US we have “market based” paid time off like we do with so many other things. The results are the same. Inequality. Poor people put through the grinder and get nothing while the rich just watch numbers go up while life stays exactly the same.
France’s famous 35-hour-week law means that you legally have to get holidays in lieu of weekly hours worked over that number. In my job I worked (theoretically) 37.5 hours, which earned me 47 paid days off. Not including public holidays.
I think those 47 come from more than the 35h RTT, which generally add about 10 days to the 25 minimum. You probably have some additional branch agreements and company benefits.
US doesn’t have paid public holidays?
Not legally mandated paid holidays. Your employer is not required to give you PTO, sick leave, or paid holidays.
can you feel the freedom? Land of the free!
My husband applied for a high level management position at a nonprofit and they only sent him the benefits info after his 3 interviews and after he settled on pay. Turns out they only offered 6 days of holidays a year: Christmas Eve and Black Friday didn’t make the list. They offered him 1K more money, twice, but wouldn’t budge on the holiday pay. Fucking incredible if you ask me.
Yemen? Wasn’t expecting that.
Well this map also includes Sudan, I doubt it is possible/useful to make a statistic about a country that is at civil war.
USA should be white. They don’t even get up to light blue status.
Hell yeah, best of Latin America
PTO in the US is at least dependent on which state you’re in. NJ has PTO mandates for full time employees. It’s pathetically low, but still better than most states.
Curious American farmer here. Who provides the payment for the mandated paid leave? The state or the employer? How does this work for people who are self employed?
Spaniard here. The employer, if you are self employed this doesn’t apply.
In Germany also the employer. If you are self employed, my understanding is that you don’t have a salary as such, so it doesn’t apply. But if you own your own company, where you work (as the CEO or whatever) and have a salary, that company pays you, even if you own it.
Another important point that these overviews don’t convey: if you are on vacation (be it abroad or at home) and you get sick, you get your paid leave time back and you can take it another time. There’s some asterisks attached to this, but generally that’s how it works. There’s a big emphasis on the text that your vacation days are yours. To regenerate, just relax or whatever you wanna do. So being sick “doesn’t count”, basically.
In Japan, employers who have permanent employees need to offer the paid leave. There are various schemes for other special types of leave and there is government assistance. There might be something from smaller companies, but I’m not sure. In Japan, the 10 days is only for 正社員 seishain full-time permanent employees. I think companies can also decide the dates for half of that for you, which is dumb.
The employee. It’s a cost of doing business. Just like overtime, sickpay and superannuation. Massive fines in Australia if you don’t adhere to them.
The govt funds an ombudsman that helps employees enforce their workplace rights.
Austria has the most in Europe in theory, but if they fall on a weekend then they dont matter. We dont do the thing that other countries do with “free day afterwards” in these cases.
Same in France
If you work at sea with a favourable contract, you can be off for 182 days a year.
With an unfavorable contract, you could be permanently enslaved at sea for years at a stretch for no pay.
Yeah, the likes of the Filipino contracts, especially during covid, were downright heartless, to say the very least.
