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66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work

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137 points pg_1234 | 7 comments | 26 Aug 23 08:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.863s | source | bottom
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unmole ◴[26 Aug 23 09:35 UTC] No.37271099[source]▶
Did the survey ask if they wanted a pay cut to match European style wages?
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cpursley ◴[26 Aug 23 09:37 UTC] No.37271107[source]▶
Fair question. I think many Americans in higher income brackets would say yes; it’s just that they’d never had the option. Ditto on a 4 day work week.
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1. refurb ◴[26 Aug 23 09:42 UTC] No.37271141[source]▶
Americans with higher incomes likely have very good vacation policies.

I get 25 days per year.

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2. objektif ◴[26 Aug 23 09:50 UTC] No.37271185[source]▶
What type of job?
3. ghosty141 ◴[26 Aug 23 09:59 UTC] No.37271248[source]▶
What you call very good is almost the minimum (24) vacation days in germany plus you get public holidays ontop of which range from 10-12 (in a good year most of them are during the workweek).

Here people who have good jobs can get ~35 vacation days.

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4. morelisp ◴[26 Aug 23 10:01 UTC] No.37271265[source]▶
25 days a year is not a "very good" vacation policy in Europe, I'd say that would be at least 35 + public holidays.
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5. maccard ◴[26 Aug 23 10:53 UTC] No.37271598[source]▶
I get 25, plus 8 bank holidays, plus an office closure for 10 days (which is technically 7 because there's 3 bank holidays during that time period) during the holiday period, and we closed for a week during Summer this year too.
6. refurb ◴[26 Aug 23 12:00 UTC] No.37272004[source]▶
I’m very happy with 25 days plus another 13 bank holidays. That’s a total of almost 2 months off per year.

And in trade for not getting another 10 days I get 2-3x the compensation as the EU.

That’s a trade I’m happy with.

7. brational ◴[26 Aug 23 15:26 UTC] No.37273724[source]▶
Right but I (and I assume others) wouldn’t trade 100-200k usd per year for 5-10 more days.

Not to mention most in that environment have plenty of flexible work arrangements as well.

I also CAN take unpaid extra days and most years do, in essence doing that trade for a better price (~1k per day), but I recognize it’s not that common in the US.