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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.
The colour scheme sucks.
Cursed GIS color scheme
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 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.
USA should be white. They don’t even get up to light blue status.
United States over here with literally zero… haha!
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, Americans just quietly quit and move on to the next thing.
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.
Hell yeah, best of Latin America
USA, leader of the
freeindentured servitude world!Good grief, this map really puts it in perspective.
The image says that it is including public holidays, but Spain’s number is not.
There are 14 mandated public holidays (8 at national level, 4 by region and 2 local ones).
And Belgium is also missing 12 days since the workweek is 38 hours but in effect that’s just given out as 12 more holidays.
That wouldn’t make sense in this graph as then you’d get into the minutia of that happening everywhere like Québec being 37.5h as full time
But that should be accounted for, otherwise the whole graph is pointless.
BTW Hungary is also off, because the amount of days off depends on your age.
The only real info from this whole map is that everywhere in the world except the US there is a concept of holidays.
Well the graph has to have a standard of what it’s measuring. Hours contributing to full time work and government issued days off are very different things especially when people are still working a typical five day week.
I don’t agree that the graph is useless outside of the US example just because of these small differences. It still shows what it primarily is trying to show, that being legally provided days off.
Part of me doesn’t believe this because based on my experience with our Mumbai office those fuckers are constantly off.
when Yemen is the top of the pack, one starts to wonder… maybe what we’re presenting isn’t a great measurement of human happiness?
It’s paid time off dude, these aren’t happiness stats
cool… wonder why people are acting like they want to go to Yemen or Libya because of this map then. maybe because we’re inferring degrees of life satisfaction from a statistic that doesn’t really signify that. I’m just restating my original point now though.
anyway, I’m glad you agree with me that federally mandated PTO levels isnt a great measurement of happiness. please let the other commenters know if you see them misinterpreting the data
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You were just the first comment in the thread when I opened the post so 🤷
But also the US with zero paid days is like literally imploding. So maybe it has a little to do with happiness
it certainly helps! I love all the holidays in korea. never realized they were mandatory
“it’s a fishing license… and it’s mandatory!”
Second paragraph is wrong - UK law mandates 20 paid days off, plus there are 8 paid public holiday days
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.
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.
Right. Maps like these always forget the US is more like the EU as its made up of sovereign states.
And totally agree, the states can, and should, do a hell of a lot better.
US doesn’t have paid public holidays?
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.
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!
Nationwide mandated paid holidays + paid leaves, meaning no one get left behind.
