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In many parts of Europe, it’s common for workers to take off weeks at a time, especially during the summer. Envious Americans say it’s time for the U.S. to follow suit.

Some 66% of U.S. workers say companies should adopt extended vacation policies, like a month off in August, in their workplaces, according to a Morning Consult survey of 1,047 U.S. adults.

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[-] Norgur@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Team leader from Germany here: This might oversell European holiday-regulations a fair bit here. Not one of the people in my team will get one whole month off in summer. How's that supposed to work? I can spare two people on holiday at any given time, So if all of my 13 workers want to have a week or two in July/August/September, none of them can have more than three weeks, and you'd have to be lucky for 3 weeks to align with the other's wishes. Otherwise, two weeks is realistic.

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And the other 33% are either nativists or bootlickers

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

So nearly 34% of Americans don't support having workers get vacation time. Huh, wonder who those 34% are...

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Small business owners, managers, people worried that they will end up picking the slack from their coworkers, people with jobs that pay less but have large amounts of vacation time, the retired who don't benefit but definitely lose, and of course bootlickers.

[-] Midnitte@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

If I can't have both, I'll take either this, or working 4 days (i.e. 32 hr) a week.

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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Look you guys can have August. I'll work it. But I get December 15th to January 15th.

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[-] ToAllPointsWest@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

With the number of billionaires Wall Street is making, we can afford this

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

The US company I work for offers unlimited vacation whch is a means for a company to avoid the financial liability of an entitlement to leave. That is illegal in Canada so for Candian employees we have unlimited vacation with a minimum of four weeks.

[-] Opafi@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago

In Europe, vacations are paid time off. That wouldn't work with unlimited days.

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