Americans = Live to WORK, Europeans = Work to LIVE
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Old story, like pre internet. I was working at a small company in Stockholm. They closed for four weeks every Summer. I spent my 4 weeks in Greece, Island hopping. When it was time to head for home we found ourselves stuck at an island called Antiparos. Tiny, no airport, small harbor, and because of the Meltemi wind, no ferries could reach the island for two weeks. So I called the boss to explain, his response was short. Enjoy the extra holiday!
Ja , fast tack och lov att de ändrade det , fan hela landet var stängt (nåja nästan)
I hope you did enjoy the Greek summer!
@@annikamyren3026 Warum kann ich das nicht lesen, es sieht so ähnlich aus.
New story, my boss just took a 15 days holidays (March 2023, well deserved by the way) with friends, in the mean time EVERYONE took over the parts of his job that was necessary for the company to carry on. No fuss, no drama, it's your manager time off. In the meantime you're the one in charge. So... What's the fuzz?
@@annikamyren3026 Håller med fast av en helt annan anledning (jag har inget emot att nästan allt är stängt några veckor om året): Jag gillar att ha semester i augusti och det kunde jag ju inte ha förr. I år ska jag ta fem veckor i rad, dessutom. Har 32 dagar per år.
In Germany it's even illegal for employers to contact you during off time (even on work days, after leaving work)
yes and no, depends on the job
nurses doctors operators are allowed to be called after work hours
@@evolad2463 That's true, and being stand-by must be compensated quite a bit. It must be included in the contract.
Yess it’s same in Ireland- not written rules- and if my boss contacts me he always will ask permission to talk with me and make sure he is not making me upset
Netherlands same
Greenland same
I’m working as a department manager in Germany. I’d actually tell people off if my employees were to work during their vacation. I do not reach out to them during that time and expect them not to be available for me. The same goes for writing emails on the weekend. And of course I make sure people use their vacation days.
That’s exactly how it should be 😊😊😊😊it’s the same in the UK too
I did the same...MM?
Grr work Creep is a real problem here in the UK
Same here sure in Ireland, they can get out right pissed off if you even show up if you left something behind on accident
youre a good boss
One of my biggest culture shocks when I worked in the US: I was sick with the flu, went to the doctor and the pharmacy, and then I went back to the office to tell them I was going home because I was feeling unwell. A project manager asked me if I was taking work home.
Getting 37 days of paid leave this year in the UK - 28 days holiday time from work and 9 days public holidays, Sounds mad when US only gets 15
Yep, and most only take half of those days and in most cases, they are non paid holidays.
As a European, I've never felt any pressure to not take my holidays, and usually, all you have to do if you give the boss notice of a few weeks in advanced, especially if it's a long holiday you're taking.
8 public holidays in England per year.
We have 9 this year for the kings coronation 😉
Americans will definitely not understand. Enjoy your paid holidays, my friend.
53 here in finland but it includes changing extra holiday salary to paid leave.
Company saves more than 2 weeks of salary on that deal but I need my winter holidays more.
In Germany, you mostly have 28 to 30 days of payed vacation (in addition to public holidays) - 20 days is only the bare minimum, guaranteed by law. So you have about 8 weeks off.
And often you can add flex time and possibly exchange bonus payments for extra days.
20 days public holidays probably in Bavaria
Strange. In trade school, I was taught that the legal minimum amount of paid vacation is 24 days.
@@gwendolynsnyder463 That is true but accounts for a 6-day work week. If you work fewer days per week those 24 days will be adapted accordingly.
That sounds so incredible. I’m actually lucky for an American and I get 4 weeks of paid vacation (and I gladly take every minute of it), but I once had a job where the first year had no paid vacation at all and once you reached the second year you would only get 5 paid days. I can’t even imagine having a whole 8 weeks of paid time off, seems like a dream.
This is so true here in the US. In my company, 2 coworkers are together and they recently had a baby (they were in the hospital, the baby was born ill) the father was literally getting calls and e-mails and answering to everything from the hospital while dealing with their sick baby and going through tough time. They didn’t respect their family leave time at all. When I was out on my surgery time, I was supposed to be out for 6 weeks, on the third week I was getting contacted to be back at work. I was back the next week. It’s insane here man😢
I don’t know how you put up with it! In some countries here in Europe, it’s actually seriously frowned upon for anyone to contact you whilst you’re on holiday or recovering from an operation. In fact, they will tell you not to come back until you’re 100% better.
@@JennyAmponsah wow. That sounds nice. Yeah not here. Or at least my company, I hope it’s not like that everywhere. Though my father’s company is even worse. He had a work-related injury and until I threatened with lawyers they agreed to help him cause there was CCTV in the company so my father could win. Honestly here people just can’t afford to loose their jobs, we literally live to work. And nvm the vacation time. Some of us only have like 2 weeks vacations if we’re lucky and we have to accumulate them with our work, those hours, already include sick time. It’s called PTO😂😂 so yeah nice
At least they can't fire you
Slaves have to be sold.
I don't understand why you people in the USA still accept that BS, as the only developed nation in the world. If everybody protests things must change, as they did in Europe as well. That, plus accepting that life isn't about working. Working is only needed to pay for your life. The latter is 100 times more important as it is freakingly short.
@@michellemorrison9663 oh my goodness, that’s terrible about your dad. I hope he’s ok now, how is he doing? Yeah seriously, if you can, move to Europe lol! There’s a much better work/life balance here. It’s not perfect by any means, but at least you won’t have to worry about not being able to take holidays when you need to.
Im a manager for an IT international company with an Office in spain. Its a normal scenario for me to tell people that they should go home, or take time off, or have a break, etc... Not only because I care about my employees, but even from a more pragmatic aproach, people work better when they are happy and relaxed. They can innovate, propose ideas, come up with solutions. If people are coming to the office to do the daily grind you can immediately see the detriment to their quality of work.
I have 34 vacation days (it'll be 35 days once I've worked for 10 years). Most people in my country don't get over 30 days, though, but I'm a radiologist and the extra days are due to working with radiation. It blows my mind every time I hear Americans think the meagre 10-15 days is a lot. Not using some of those days? That's downright crazy
I get 34 days, and if i don't use it all, i can carry 5 days over to the next year.
@@terranaxiomuk I can carry however many unused vacation days I have over to the next year, but they have to be used by the end of June of the year I'm carrying them over to
@@theOwtcastKMin italy there are some contracts which allow you to keep your days as long as you want, but you can't take more than 2 weeks in a row. I've got an older collegue wjich put away every year 15 days ~ he retired like 1 year and a half faster cause of the payed vacantion. He did 2 weeks off, 1 week at work, 2 weeks off ecc, since the boss noticed and let him took the whole vacation in a single "shot", to let him enjoy his elder time. The boss and the collegue were good friends at this point, so he still come sometimes to help us out when we have no idea what to do 😅 (he was the one teaching my team how to do the job)
Netherlands here: I have 38 days a year (not counting holidays). 20 are mandatory by law a year, you lose those if you don't use them. The remaining 18 you can bring with you for 5 years, or let them be paid out. But why would you do that? My goal is to reach 50 days in the next 10 years.
In Germany, your boss is not allowed by law to call you on your vacation.
Also in France ( not even on sick leave just to ask " how are you?")
In the Netherlands you get 27 paid vacation days and in the end of May you get 8% of your year salery as vacation money.
The lawful minimum is 20 vacation days and there are also 7 holidays (New Years Day, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Pentacoste Monday, Kings Day, First Christmas Day and Second Christmas Day). There is also Liberation Day, a holiday, but not a free day, I have to work that day or take a day off. But once every five years Liberation Day is a free day also, because of the Central Labor Agreement (CAO in Dutch) of my profession (Construction office jobs called UTA) this also I gives me another 10 days of extra leave and because I’m over 55years, I also get 8 senior days. On top of that you get 13 days (5 extra vacation days, 5 extra leave days and 3 medical leave days) paid out in your salary which you can buy back. So if you don’t buy those days back, you have a higher salary, if you do take these days you have the same salary as in your contract is agreed. So in total I have 58 days a year, but I only take 45 days so I have a higher salary.
Wait, they give you bonus pay to take a vacation? Wow… the US could never… 😢
Yes. Even people with a pension get a vacation bonus .
@@bertoverweel6588 Sounds lovely. Makes me wish I had been born in The Netherlands or at least in a country where the government actually cared about the average person instead of just the mega rich.
@@rosea1295 Yes, in Germany as well. You also get extra money for Christmas. We call those payments the 13th and 14th monthly salary.
Being in the UK... Until a few years back, when I injured myself, I had worked at my former employer for 23 yrs. being there that long, I had maximum holiday entitlement which was close to eight weeks, that's six weeks work paid holiday and along with bank holidays included. not to mention six months sick leave, per year by the way. which I used up in one year after breaking my left collar bone, painful enough but in June of 2020 at the height of lockdown.
Free surgery, which included metallic bridge plate, x-rays, physio-therapy, painkillers and everything else I needed to get back to health.
When I'm using the word: "Ambition" I'm thinking Life Goals, not Career Goals.
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I'm from Norway 🇧🇻 btw 🌞
for me it could mean both, but it depends on what the person is refering to.
It kinda is both. Just that i am ambitious at work to set up for my ambitions in life ^^
I am working in a low paid job in germany, but even for me I don't have to worry about getting sick and I have 5 weeks vacation each year without national holidays.
And thats even less than some of my friends have. Also non of us are reachable for our boss after work except one who works at a hospital and sometimes has possible extra shifts.
Greetings from Poland :) - 26 days of paid vacation ( work days, not calendar days - sundays and saturdays don't count as vacation days, so vacation from monday to sunday will take only 5 days from you, and all hollidays also don't take days from you :) ) we can have 182 days of sick leave (paid by employer - 80% of your salary ) and another 270 days paid by social security ( in that case - 70% of your salary :) , oh, and I forget - Health care is free and internet is very, very fast and cheap - I pay about 15USD per month for 500MBit fiberoptic internet ;) ;)
We beat you in Romania regarding that Internet thing :) I pay 9 USD per month for 1Gbps fiber optic :))
Healthcare is "free". I don't remember the last time I didnt pay at doctors office.
@@RaduRadonysAnd we absolutely beat you here in Greece. I pay 35€ a month for 50 mbps connection.
@@helloimduker6070, 12 euros a month and 3,4 Gbps speed. Romania, of course.
A phrase that I always lived by ( when I was unlucky enough to not be retired) is - “ The supply of tasks is infinite, the supply of my time is not; I’m off home, see all yous termorra!”
It reminds me of a boss of mine shooing everybody out of the offices at 5pm by saying "Let's all go home, the sun will still rise tomorrow" - after almost ending in a burn-out from trying to absorb the extra tasks that upper management had assigned to him.
@@LeSarthois German here. I once had supervisors in the US for a project. One day, my senior man manager questioned, how it can be possible that I had taken sick lange and, still, was able to spend so many days on holidays - plus all those public holidays (with bridge days). His first question was: "How can you even afford to be off so often?" The thought that I was getting paid vacation and sick leave, didn't even cross his mind. And when he realised that that was the normal reality here in Europe, I could virtually hear his inner beliefs shatter into pieces.
At one point, I really got worried for him as he was working day, night, during the weekends and vacation and was discussing that with him and that he has to take care of himself and allow himself to breathe, if he didn't want to end up in a breakdown or even a serious burnout. Just like I would have discussed that with my own team members, if I had seen that they are getting overworked.
He wasn't familiar with the term "burnout" at all... At first, he made fun of it, but slowly, it sank in.
In retrospective, I'm not sure, whether that discussion helped him or whether it rather destroyed something in him.
Little did I know back then on the situation in the US...
With the knowledge of today, I'm not sure, I would have mentioned it... as sad as that is.......
Some European countries such as France have what is called a ‘Café Society’ where at the end of the workday they meet up for a beer or coffee etc and generally socialise. Overtime working in France is not as commonplace as in the U.K. for instance.
It is an american idea (called team building with your boss&colleagues). Afterworks are only with teamworkers you enjoy being with or you don't go. But most of the time: job is done, family&friends time!
Aperitivo, here
yeah also math is an American idea english is an American tacos are American idea and dont forget beijing opera that an American idea
live in france with 32 days paid vacation and 11 public day off . in summer people use to take 2 weeks at the time . but certain offices , constructions are off for all august , we work less (in hours) than the usa, but we are not burned out or overwhelmed because we have time for ourselves and our familly and friends . finally , we are more efficient when we are at work
I’m working in a government department in the Netherlands and get 32 days. But because I work 40 hours a week (for government workers 36 hours is full time) I save up an extra day of vacation for every 2 workweeks. So I have like +-55 paid days of vacation 🤯.
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4 weeks is the legal minimum that all workers in the netherlands get for paid time off. Companies are allowed to offer more and this is often done in jobs with high demand to attract workers. I work as a Software Engineer in Amsterdam and get 5.5 weeks of paid vacation time each year.
I live in Germany and get 6 weeks paid leave a year. The company also forces us to take it all within the year.
At the bank I worked for in Australia we not only got 5 weeks annual leave but we could work an extra 10 hours per week and that time could be either be paid as overtime or credited towards annual leave. We could roll over any unused annual leave at the end of each year. It only took me 5 years to be able to take a 1 year vacation on full pay, plus 17% annual leave loading pay and my job was guaranteed on my return.
Two months before my 1 year vacation in Germany was due to end and by then I had a very good grasp of reading, writing and speaking German I decided to apply for a work transfer as the bank I worked for in Australia is a Dutch bank with offices also in Germany. Not only was the transfer approved they also paid to fly all my belongings to Germany.
Rabo bank?
I had a job with a similar system in the British civil service. For every hour of overtime we earned an extra hour towards annual leave. We called them flexi-days and a lot of people moaned about them.
They'd rather be paid for overtime, as we already got six weeks holiday leave plus bank holidays.
@@Lilygirl283 ING Direct
Maaan, I cannot even comprehend having only two weeks of vacation and not even spending them. I have 30 days (on top of around 10 days of public holidays) and it is nearly not enough for all my travel plans. :)
The problem is, as Ryan said at 2:30 , my work IS my life, which most Americans seem to think. As a consequence, a lot of Americans don't know what to do with themselves outside of work. I or most of my colleagues never have such a dilemma here in Europe. Going on long unhindered vacations are part of what we're used to. If I found myself at a loss to be able to enjoy my free time I think I'd shoot myself.
Count yourself lucky. Average american takes only 5 days of vacation per year, and about 30% take 0 days (and in many cases don't even get Easter or Xmas day off).
In Italy we usually have 2,5 days off per month, plus public holidays. Then you can have some days off ( 24/48 hours ) that you can use whenever you need half a day for personal problems.. In my job I have 7 weeks paid vacation, plus the national holidays and 3 days ( 24 hours) for personal needs
It's exactly the same in Spain, 30 natural days that add up as 2.5 days for each month you worked, so if you work for 3 months you already have right to 7.5 days off. And then usually 2 days of "personal use", which you can use just saying a couple of days in advance. That's the minimum, some jobs offer a lot more vacation days or personal days.
Another thing is that sick leave is a separate thing from vacation. You take vacation for vacation. You take sick leave for when you are sick, and that's unlimited, you get (at least where I live) 80% of your salary when sick. And, you can save 1 week of your unused vacation to next year, so you can save several weeks for a very long vacation in the future if you want to plan for that.
Before I retired I used to get 33 days holiday per year, this was made up of 25 days of floating holidays which could be taken in two weeks in one lump, or longer if the work load permitted and the rest in floating days of 1 or 2 days at a time. The other 8 days were statutory holidays such as Christmas, New Year and Easter etc. if asked to work these days due to the company’s delivery dates on contracts then you were paid a least double wages and still allowed to take those days off at a later date. Some companies have a two week shutdown where everyone is on holiday. When I worked in the shipyards they had a two week break called “shipyard fortnight’ the only people working were those carrying out vital maintenance work.
In Austria i have 5 weeks paid vacation (25 days) + anything i work overtime. I prefer taking time off more than being paid the overtime. This way i can take a day off anytime i want.
In addition, any vacation time that i don't use will stay on my "time account" until i finally use it. This way you are able to only use the two mandatory weeks and safe the rest for a longer vacation (4 weeks or longer should be checked with the boss tp be sure)
In my job in GER, I have 30 days of paid vacation anually, that's six weeks. In addition, we have 11 holidays in the state I'm currently living in, so this all adds up to a total 41 days of fully paid leave. The federally granted minimum of paid vacation is currently 20 days, but many companies offer substantially more than the bare minimum. The employer has to make sure the employee uses up every single day even if the employee doesn't want to do so.
Hey there i got offer from some German company on Germany is 26 days payed holiday ok for year working in Germany?And how you calculate holiday days is weekend included i days or you Just calculated day from mon. to friday.I be apricciate,than you mister from Germany
@@miroslavblagojevic A late answer from me! 26 days is a little low, but in the law and some companys give you more the longer you work for them. Your PTO days are only reduced if that would be a work day for you, holiday, weekend or being sick (with official doctors notice) dont reduce your PTO by law
In Poland we have 26 paid holidays (weekends not icluded- free by default) plus 9 days of bank hilidays. Also we have something like Sick leave- it's 80% of normal wage and You can take like 90 or even more days of it durning a year....so it's a huge difference than in US
We woke to live not the other way around (bonus- if You have baby you can have 32weeks off -during this timw it's paid 80% of your salary)
Boom🎉
Yes you WOKE to live, otherwise you wouldn't noticed since you were sleeping. HA, HA, HA!! Unless you "woke" the wrong "progre" way
I had different jobs with vacation days from 25-30 days per year. The problem with saving vacation days is, you lose them in the next year and many companys urge you to take your vacation. Usually you hand in your holiday plan at the beginning of the year and discuss with your colleagues.
Yes that is a hidden part of it. As part of solidarity with colleagues, as we all cant be on leave at the same time, everyone of us looses a part of this leave every year
I dont lose my days. I just cant take it at the time i want to. Depends of if you have children etc.
Hey Ryan - the reason I subscribe to your channel is precisely because you're not like most Americans, mate! You're real - not all shiny and polished all the time, often in need of a shave and while fairly often good humoured, at times you're pissed off and doing your best not to show it, but failing miserably - and that's great, for you're with people that love you, warts and all, mate! Enjoying working towards realising the dream of becoming an honorary European citizen, one day! We'd all love to have you here!!
Right !
I get 4 weeks plus the extra free paid days like christmas, pentecost, Kingsday and a few more . Every 5 years you work for the company they give you an extra free day. The company will not contact anyone who is on vacation unless it is an emergency or it's part of your job to be available but even then there are rules since you are on your own time. The calculation for vacation time here in the Netherlands is: your workweek in hours x 4 = your vacationtime. When you don't use your time, HR and your manager will inform you and even start to push you to take your time before it expires.
In EU when you don't use your yearly vacation days they stack and you can move them to the next year. I don't know if that's the case in US.
Also some companies will force you to go on vacation if you don't take them because they can get in trouble if their workers don't take enough of them.
Did I pick that up right? Workplace health insurance doesn't cover you if you are on vacation? Maybe I'm wrong but that's crazy if it's true!
Why should that cover you if you are not at work?
@@Lilygirl283 because you're still employed !!!!!
it´s cvered by the government.
2 weeks a year, wow. 😮
At least 30 days vacation + 10 public holidays is a must. I take 2 full weeks at christmas, 2 full weeks in summer and then a bunch of long weekends , at least one long weekend a month Friday & Monday off.
I take 5 (consecutive) weeks in July-August, 2 weeks around christmas/New Years and a week in spring (depending on when I want to take it). Fully paid. In fact, my whole office is closed all of July. I might also take extra days around easter etc. I could *never* work in the US. My soul would die.
I work for a multinational with colleagues sitting in the USA. The amount of holidays they are allowed is ridiculous. Plus barely any bank holidays. Don't know how they survive like this.
It's slavery
I live in Italy, here you HAVE to take 4 weeks of paid vacations each year, usually divided 2 weeks in Summer, 2 weeks in winter (but depends on the job) It is mandatory to take vacations. If the employee doesnt want to take them the company have to send him in forced vacations, otherwise the company can get in trouble. Working without vacations is considered bad for your health so you have to take them. Optionals: You also have 1 extra week a year of paid "permissions" to use if you need to do something and you cant go to work (you can divide it into single days off) if you dont use that week off you get paid as if you worked an extra week that year. You can also take paid days off anytime you are sick. And if you get sick during vacation you can stop the vacation time, take sick days and resume the vacation time when you are feeling fine. Then the are some extra paid days off for special cases. If you study you have 150 paid hours off a year to prepare for exams or dissertations. You can ask for up to 4 paid days of a year to take care of a sick relative, you get 2 weeks extra paid vacations if you get married... There are many many ways to do everything you need to have a happy healthy life without your job getting in the way.😊
In Austria, after working for 5 years, you're allowed to take an education-leave to go to university for 3 years. You then keep receiving 60% of your salary during your university time and are guaranteed to get your job back once you graduate. There are some requirements, like you ending up graduating, high attendance rate but overall it's a very fair arrangement.
paid vacation is absolutely normal here in germany, my co-worker got 5 weeks now - hes hiking in spain, and still got some vacation days left. 30 days of vacation are minimum in our company, u can buy 8 days more if u want, or get more by the yearly salary talks.
That's exactly true. In July and August, business is very slow cause all workers are on holiday with their families. Except for Horeca and tourism. As European, we consider this normal, but I worked in the USA 🇺🇸 and I experienced it myself, taking 1 day off, and the manager looks at you, like something is wrong with you?
In Norway we have 5 weeks (6) paid vacation 😊👌🇳🇴
German here living in France. We actually get, just for working full-time (38h week), a big amount of additional vaccation days. So, we end up with 40(!) per year. That's bascially 8 weeks (without holidays).
Also, here in Belgium we have 11 days payed hollydays + 20 days payed leave. + seniority witch is 1 day after 1 year at the company then +1 day at every 5 years added to that.
example ... so after:
1 year +1 day
6 years +2 days
11 years +3 days
etc (these are PAYED)
the 20 days payed leave, you have to take, or you must pay them back to taxes, do not skip on these days!!!
The seniority leave, you can acumulate over the years and take with you to next year.
The Hollydays are calendar fixed, like Christmas, Easter and so forth...
(Sweden) I had 6 weeks paid vacation a year on my last couple of jobs.
Also, I've never had unpaid overtime. The norm is that you get 1.5 times pay (or extra time off as compensation) for every evening hour of overtime, and 2 times pay or time for working weekends or on public holidays. This makes many companies prohibit overtime.
I agree this is the norm, but not true for tech companies in Sweden ;) You always end up working more and its a lot more competitive / international. Almost anyone I know needs to work overtime when time calls and they dont get paid for it extra, tho the general pay is obviously above average so I guess cant complain.
@@thegalhorowitz I'm sure that may be the case, but I never experienced it myself when working as a Programmer, Network Administrator, and at other Tech jobs
@@thegalhorowitz you should talk to your union .
Utländsk företag ? Finns arbetslagar alla svenska företag måste följa annars tar man kontakt med facket .
@@thegalhorowitz To be clear, I've worked at companies with 2000 employees, USA based, and companies with 20 employees, I have around 20 years of experience in the IT business, around 30 people I know have similar experience to mine. Sorry that you and your friends have a different one
I'm Italian, I work 35 hours a week and have 34 days off a year. overtime is switched to holidays, this allows me to take a break from work several times a year.
I have 28 days a year, can take as much as I want unpaid and also can take sickleave days if I don´t feel well. I do also have additional 5 days paid to study different things for work (advanced training). I have family in the US and I talk to them a lot and ask when they want to visit us and all they say is that they need to work more in order to have some free days as they will be unpaid. This is wild to me...really...
even through Germany is not the one top country to live in, I can tell you that I really enjoy having my social security and workers' rights
It's the time to take off, but also the expense to take off work. Millions of Americans (myself included) would be screwed if we missed a paycheck (unpaid leave). So, needing to work more to save more, and work more to save for more time off.
Ryan , just think, if you get 30 days holiday a year (like I do) thats 6 weeks, as most of us have a 5 day week, monday to friday. So, if he took 10 of his 30 days, so had 2 weeks off, then he will still have 4 weeks to take off :-)
In Austria we have 5 weeks of paid holidays and if there is any days left over, you can use it for the next year.
That means, for example, if I only go on vacation for 3 weeks, then 2 weeks remain, then I have 7 weeks holidays in the following year.
Depending on the company, we can take days off with us for up to three years.If you work for the same company for 25 years, you automatically have 6 weeks off every year. What also should be mentioned: If you have a child, you can go on parental leave for 2 years. That means you are at home for 2 years and receive parental leave money from the state. This begins as early as 8 weeks before the birth of the child. If you are ill, you will still receive your salary - sick pay is generally due for up to 26 weeks. In exceptional cases, you can get it for up to 78 weeks.
Sorry to be PLUMBEOUSLY NAGGING but that it is a NIGHTMARE for HR in medium companies and a CATASTROPHE in little ones!!. THINK ABOUT and CONSIDERATION FOR YOUR CO-WORKERS that need to OVERWORK because you FANCY to take a leave whenever .
@@fan8281xx their employers are not greedy like in America, I am sure they hire people to substitute the ones taking a leave
@@marias5088 I meant that when someone had the bad luck of one of coworkers being ILL just before and overlapping the annual paid leave holiday makes havoc for the other coworkers who also planned their holidays or to the owner of little business because an EXPERIENCED WORKER NEEDS TO TEACH the temporal hired worker about the particular ways of that business; WHO WOULD BE the "sacrified" one without vacation , if there are only 3, let alone only 2, permanent employees?
That said it is fate that should have been FORESEEN by the employer, NOT an excuse for not paying annual leave.
Otherwise , do like the next comment about Stockholm litlte busines and do what most little business do in southern Europe: FERRAGOSTO in Italy, CERRADO POR VACACIONES in Spain (mainly August but also Mid Aug-Mid Sept)
I have 7 weeks and I'm obliged to take every single day. I usually take a longer 3 weeks off to travel, and 2 periods of 2 weeks. #BestThingEver
I really don't know how you guys can manage with 2 weeks in the US 😪
MOST AMAERICAN DIE EARLY OVER STRESS IS A BIG FACTOR
Time off in the US is often service time dependent. I get 5 weeks of paid vacation, but I have 39 years with the same company. In the US people tend to change jobs every 5 years or so. Typically, the 5th year of service (for most companies) is when you're allotted your 3rd week of vacation.
Generally, in the US you get 1 week of vacation the first year. 2 weeks your 2nd year through your 5th. 3 weeks your 5th year through 10th. 4 weeks at your 10th. Then "usually" the coveted 5th week is at 20-25 years of service. They make you wait a little more for that one.
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As a nurse in Finland I get 28-30 days a year and after working fifteen years, 38 days. Plus, of course, the public holidays through out the year. The work day is 7 hours and 45 minutes, plus half an hour lunch break which is my own time, meaning that I can leave the office and I don`t have to be available. And I`m not.
I am Dutch, so 28 vacationdays plus 13 atv time so every year 41 days each year. 3 weeks summer holiday is normal that are only 15 days , then a few times a week like eastern , christmas 2 weeks, and a day left and right. You have to use them before 31-12 each year, you can only take 5 days to next year. So you boss would say , take that holiday.
I‘m currently going through job interviews and meetings with companies because I want to start this wintersemester with my dual study programme as a shipbuilding engineer. It sounds crazy to me, how many vacation days you get in the US. I was offered 30 days vocation (without public holidays) from the get-go. The company explicitly told me to take my holidays because I need the down time to do my job well (especially with double the pressure as a dual study).
Greetings from Germany!
WOW! You thought summer vacation only applied to school kids? 😱😱😱😱
Two weeks vacation is a long time? Again, I’m 😱😱😱😱. Annual leave in Australia is four paid weeks, for every adult, every year! The Employment Laws insist on it! We also have Long Service Leave, so if you’ve worked for the same employer for say, fifteen years, you can apply for LSL and get 3 months paid leave.
Fun fact: In Portugal a law was passed that prohibits, yes prohibits the company calling the collaborator after work hours.
Hello Ryan, I’m from Germany and I work from Monday to Thursday 7:30am to 4:30 pm and Friday 7:30am to 1pm, Saturday and Sunday free. We had 10 to 13 catholic payd holidays + 6weeks payd Holidays. At least 13.months payd per year. In case I’m Sick then I give my boss a call, takes it more than 3 Days I have to go to a doctor. Takes it longer than 6 weeks (full payd), you get 70% from the health insurance to recreation max 18 month. After that and you not able to work, you get money for Rent electricity heating and 14€ a day (every day).
So, I like Germany 🇩🇪
Not all holidays in German are catholic holidays. 3 of the nationwide holidays are not religious. Most are just christian holidays in general. Most christian holidays in Germany are relevant for most christian confessions, although the relevancy might be different.
Ach, diese Bayern....die nehmen auch noch die katholischen Feiertage mit 😁😁😁.
Working for an oil&gas company in The Netherlands I had 38 days off a year (ex national holidays), when I moved to France for the same company it was about 45 days…so no worries here😊
All paid too…not to forget 😊
I worked for an American company in the UK for 25 years. By the time I left I was on 29 days holiday / year. 25 days is the norm when I started which is quite normal in the UK. Don't know how my American colleagues would feel about that...
Great reaction as always. 1:29 In the Netherlands, all companies tight to the construction sector have this thing called "bouwvak" in which the companies close for 3 weeks. There are 3 shifts, so work doesnt come to a complete halt.. but still 3 weeks paid off, every summer
When I was ten in 1986 I was in the US for the first time. My dad took 6 weeks off for the trip from New York to Key West. Paid leave of course. I'm from Germany now living in Switzerland.
"The Europeans" is like "The Americans". There are different countries in Europe, you know. ;)
When I retired I was entitled to 25 days annual leave as well as statutory holidays such as Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Years Day and the day following, Provincial Anniversary Day, Waitangi Day, King's Birthday, Matariki (Maori New Year), Labour Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday and this year, Coronation Day. An additional 12 days, a total of 37 days.
Apart from the specific holidays leave coul be taken as I chose but some companies close down over the summer period for about three weeks.
Looking back I had several career changes to improve my situation which I could do because I was not bound to an employer for medical insurance, having a national health delivery service, so definitely work to live, not live to work.
I'm I'm Poland, here you have 21 day paid vacation when you start working and after 10 years it's go up to 26. If you have college degree you get 26 days after 2 years of working. Now best part if you don't use your vacation day in year they go to next year and you have new 26 days for that year. And if you don't use "old" vacation till end of September company will be fine by government. So they will force you to go on vacation. You company HR will be like: "You have 6 days of old vacation, if you don't take them in next month you will start your vacation from that day". I don't count here national holiday that are free from work. And if you work in company like me, what is public service and you have to work in holiday, you have extra day of to use on day you selected that month. Same if holiday is at Saturday, you can pick any other working day and have it day off. All this day you will get normal salary.
Hi. I work in UK, which has 28 days of paid vacation. But it gets better. As I work 5 days a week with two days off, holidays I take are counted same way... So a week of vacation will mean you have used 5 days (+2 days off). Sumarizing- 28 days of paid vacation will give you almost 6 weeks away from work.
I'm retired now and I realise my holiday entitlement was good even for the UK and Europe. I had 13 weeks paid leave per year, 6 of which I always booked off during the summer as a block.
I’ll be honest when I was employed if I didn’t get proper holidays like we do in the UK. It would be a different picture, instead of having breaks to recharge and going back loving my job and being happy to work the odd extra hour when needed (as long as it didn’t interfere with community roles etc). I think I would resent my job and probably invest a lot less of myself into it.
In Denmark we have 5 weeks paid vacation. Some jobs offer 6 weeks or more. Some jobs offer flexable hours where you don't need to be in the office at a specific time but can get in earlier or later and finish earlier or later. Whatever works for you but most jobs do have a fixed time. After Covid more jobs now offer the ability to work from home some days a weeks which is great.
I work at a university here in Belgium - I get 61 days of holiday per year, excluding the national holidays. During summer, there is 3 weeks compulsory, and during Christmas, one week is compulsory.
It depends on the company if they have a holiday during the whole summer or not. I definitely don't have that that I would be off for the entire summer 😂
I get 23 days of paid holiday now plus 15 public holidays in Slovakia.
5-6 weeks vacation in Denmark, plus holidays.
And we just had major drama because the govt. took one of the holidays away.
I live in Germany and I'm working in the field of machine building. In all factories here it's common to have 30 days payed vacation. And most people use it. 6 weeks of vacation time. Not only that... You can sum up overtime and take it for additional vacation. So, a lot of people are having up to 10 weeks free time. Sometimes even more.
Here in Austria i got 30 days off a year plus flex working hours to use also i can carry over vecation days up to two years if i dont use them
But they also would pay for the vecation days if i don’t use them
And we get payed 14 times a year (we get double money in December and January for vecation and Christmas)
I really think that it's necessary to take your mind off of your work every now and then. And it can take quite some time to do that depending on the kind of work you're doing. It'll allow you to get a different perspective on your work and possibly new ideas about it. And even if it's just making you appreciate more what you're doing for a living: it could make you do it better.
Another reason supporting the European approach is social cohesion. I'm always keeping a few vacation days on the side just to be able to take care of something unexpected. It was very helpful during the time when I was looking after my parents. And it allows me to visit friends who are living a bit further away. Others would use the time to help organise a sports event with their club or with the voluntary fire brigade, red cross, Caritas/Diakonie etc.
And even if you're using it just for gardening in your back yard it could be helpful for nature in some way.
Summer is a main vacation season in Europe. Hence between the beginning of June and the beginning or middle of October you can expect some people being on vacation. People with family, particularly with kids are prioritized to get vacation days during school holidays. Employees are usually asked to hand in their vacation plans until the end of February to enable coordination of absence periods in a way to minimize disruption. And a similar planning is done for the season of Christmas and New Year and possibly skiing vacations. Since that is a shorter period coordination is much easier. However, since the time between Christmas Eve and New Years day is a very typical occasion for family events some companies are actually closed at that time completely.
Hi :) Nothing comes from nothing. Denmark's workers have fought for the rights they have today, together with their workers unions. This will of course apply in America as well. You must learn to cooperate for the rights you want. If you all stand together and possibly using strikes as a weapon, you can eventually achieve what you want, but remember that everyone must be loyal to participate and not be "screwdrivers". You must also ensure that you build good unions, where you pay a small amount each month, in order to get strike money to live on during the strike period. It's not easy, but you have to start somewhere before you can change it for you in the future. I know that it can be difficult today with the way the labor market is. Denmark has gradually gained our rights over a period of over 100 years. :)
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Så sandt så sandt.. 😊
Exakt , de skulle ha krävt det för länge sedan . Men US är inte lika solidariska mot varandra som i Europa, det är mer "sin egen framgång " som räknas....
@@annikamyren3026 Helt sandt. Men de må til at lære at hvis de vil have forandringer, så må de også være solidariske i deres kamp. :) Som jeg skrev, intet kommer fra intet. :)
My former employer had the rule that everyone MUST take at least 1 two-week vacation per year. We get 5 weeks of vacations per year. My boss wanted to make sure that u take at least one long break from work. The HR department would remind u if didn’t took a two-week vacation yet.
In The Netherlands, we have 7 official holidays like Easter and Christmas, and 20 days paid vacation by law. My employer gives me 8 paid vacation days on top of that. Most people having children will take a vacation during the school holidays, because it is the only time they can go on holiday with their children. That is why so many people are 'off' during the summer season. I do not have children, so I can take vacation during the low season, like the end of spring or summer. I try to have at least 2 weeks vacation somewhere in summer, and it is easy to have a 'long week end' by taking Thursday, Friday and the next Monday off. I try to do that 3-4 times a year. That still gives me 7 official holidays, and 5 off-days to spare.
It is really necessary to pause your brain by taking a few days off, multiple times a year. Only taking one week of vacation days is really not enough to be able to work for longer periods. Two weeks paid vacation is still incredibly low by European standards, but at least try to be free a couple of days, 2 or 3 times each year. And please, don't open your work email while not working...
I'm lucky, I did enjoy my careers in the military and as a Civil Service Instructor for a combined fifty years. I used to get a minimum of 30+ days holiday (six weeks) or more per year too, and that doesn't include weekends and public holidays either. Working hours obviously varied, especially in the military. In my last few years of work we worked a four and a half day week with a half day on Fridays also. I could have earned more in the private sector for a similar job, but I wanted to enjoy my Family and social life.
Isn't it increasingly frustrating to realize how different your life could be by watching all those clips about life in Europe ?
I think a lot of the failure to fight back against the poor way many workers are treated in the US, is their lack of knowledge of how things are in other countries.
Many do two jobs to make ends meet, worry about getting sick, and all the time, think they are living in the best country in the world.
I had 47 days of leave to use this year (01/08/22-31/07/23) working full time in the UK. I get 28 days leave + there are usually 8 bank holidays but there have been 3 extra for the jubilee, funeral and coronation, my organisation has 3 closure days, and I had 5 days carry over from last year.
I France we get 5 weeks of paid vacation, generally people will take a few days equivalent of 1-2 weeks during the year to do things like organise for the start of the school year, prepare Christmas etc, then they'll take 2-3 weeks of vacation in the summer. The country doesn't grind to a halt though, there are basically 3 waves of big departures between June and August. Parents will generally pick july or August while people with no kids might prefer June since most schools are still in session and accommodations are less crowded.
I think that if he said he had 4 weeks left, it is because hollydays accumulate, for instance, I had a French uncle, when he retired, his boss had to send him in vacation first for a whole month, because he had so many days left, that he accumulated along the years.
Fun fact, there are even talks to rethink vacation days, so that when you get another job, you keep the vacation days you accumulated...
About him having 4 weeks left, that's pretty common, because everything you don't use up acummulates. And HR tends to get angry when you don't use it up (at least in Italy), because you're legally required to use your free days.
That can lead to strange arrangements, for example one guy at my last company agreed to stay at home every friday for an indefinite amount of time, in order to avoid piling up even more days.
Same here in Germany. At the end of a calender year HR usually gets on everybody's backs and pound them into taking their vacation days. If it can't be done during the Christmas holidays and New Years, then usually by the end of the first quarter of the new year. A friend of mine had his complete vacation days at the end of the year, plus 14 days of overtime/flex time vacation days. So he had to take his whole 44 DAYS in one block, plus the public holidays of two Christmas days, plus New Years. So he essentially took off around December 20th, and came back at the end of February.
Oh yes, i forgot about the extra paychecks! Do you have that in the usa? In many jobs if you work for 12 months you get 14 paychecks. You get an extra salary in december and an extra salary in june. So you have extra money for travelling or whatever you want (But european salaries are lower in average than american salaries)
This video was made during the pandemic. A lot of people didn't take all their mandatory vacation days, because there was nowhere you could go to. The number of vacation days that you didn't take will be moved over to the next year. You have 1,5 year to take your mandatory vacation days. Non mandatory vacation days can be saved for 5 years.
Feeling blessed after watching this. I am 52 yrs old and now with my second US company having offered me 30 days PTO. The first was a Philly based financial advisory firm. Technically offering employees “unlimited PTO”. And I am now with a Philly based law firm where my recruiter negotiated 30 days for me. Downside is, I do not use it all each year. Upside is, we can roll it over or cash it out. 😊
PS: glad you weren’t murdered during the making of this video. LOL ❤
In Germany some Companies also offer Vacation money. It's an anual Bonus. So not only you get paid while being on vacation but you get a Bonus (for me it's 70%) on top for every day you're off work. and usually you get it before summer vacation time. I get it with my paycheck in may 🙂
Ryan, you make me laugh every time! I'm glad nobody murdered you. 😂 I get the usual 30 vacation days per year here in Finland. This summer I will be on vacation for four weeks travelling in Lapland and in Europe, and totally forget my work, just like my bosses do as well. Here everybody is on holiday for the whole of July.
The purpose of holiday is to forget work!!! But us yanks don’t get to do that
In the UK I had 37 days annual leave and everyone was expected to take the full entitlement. if towards the end of the holiday year I still had some holiday days remaining I would be interviewed by HR and asked when I would be taking my remaining days if I said I had no plans I would be told when I had to take them. I was a senior manager and I was never contacted by my employer whilst I was on holiday and I never contacted them. That's working to live.
I also work in the Netherlands and will be having 30 workdays off this year. Plus plenty of public holidays.
I've been to some 50 countries and will add 6 new this year.
@Ryan Wuzer, go check out Sequoia NP and Yosemite NP, it's cool indeed. Also Death Valley, Antelope Canyon, Sedona and plenty of other places in your own country. Trust me, I've been there several times :D
6weeks vacation and 35h per week (an maybe 4 days with 32h coming soon ) and some hollidays is really nice, it just help to be even more productive at the work time (recharging your battey)
Ok. I'm Irish living in Spain. I get 4 weeks summer holidays plus all those public holidays etc. I used to take calls and messages etc when on holiday. Now no. Not since somebody invented the phrase "work life balance". Now tell everyone to log off when they are on holidays or simply in their at the weekend
The country keeps going because everyboby is not on vacation in the same time in summer. Imagine an office with 12 workers along the year : there are 4 who will be on vacation at the beginning of July, 4 at the end of July/beginning of August and 4 at the end of August. So things slow down at work in the summer but never stop.
My job gives me 5 weeks 4 days vacation paid and we all make sure we use every single day! Can't believe you don't take your second week!! ❤
A duchy here, at my current job I have 36 vacation days and I am contractually obligated to take 3 weeks vacation in a singel go. The other 4 weeks are free to take how i want.
Years ago, before I moved to the US from Germany, I had 30 days paid vacation (5 days per week = 6 weeks off), plus 11 or 12 paid holidays off. That's roughly 2 months off each year. In addition we changed at one point officially from 40 hour work each week to 38 hours work per week. At that point we were paid 38 hours per week, but were allowed to work 40 hours and the additional 2 hours added up each week on a time account and when you accumulated enough hours, then you could stay at home another week or 2.
That way I had basically 10 weeks off each year... loved it
In Poland you get 20 days vacation if you only start working and 26 days after working for over 10 years (total sum of your work experience including your college years on the condition that you graduated). But those are work days, so the 20 days are 4 weeks, while 26 days are 5 weeks and 1 day counting normal weekends. However, we also have various bank holidays. So i.e. in May we have the 1st and 3rd May off, which means that if you take just 3 days off you have 9 days long vacation. Similarly, in winter we have 25th and 26th December off for Christmas and 1st January for New Year Eve. So again, taking 3 days off gives you 10 days vacation. Not to mention that many employers will tell you not to come on Christmas Eve or even during the days between Christmas and New Year Eve without the need to take days off. If a bank holiday is on a weekend your employer has to return the free day to you on a week day. And if you don't use your vacation days during a year your employer has to pay you extra for those days which is why they are very likely to push you to take your days off.
Ryan. I worked in the UK all my life, with a 6 month spell in the US, a 6 month spell in Italy and 4 years in The Netherlands, all with the same employer, British Telecommunications (BT). As an apprentice I was allowed 14 days annual leave per year, every year I would have an incremental rise. Every promotion I’d get more days. These days were for personal use. I was also entitled to following, 3 for Christmas, one for New Year, 3 for Easter (as a public servant one of these were in lieu of Queen’s Birthday), 2 at Spring Break (Whitsun) and 1 for late summer bank holiday.
By the time I retired our working conditions change, I was working a 9 day fortnight. So my days leave were multiplied by 37 ½, length of standard working day. Having two weeks, or three was up yo my manager, the only reason for refusal would be too many others off at the same time. We knew that at say Christmas we had to have enough cover for emergency cover during the day. At night we could be called out. Of course if I was called out on Christmas Day then I would have 2 ½ times over time and a day added to my leave.
I was on my high street today, had an appointment. It lasted nearly two hours.
I decided afterwards to have some coffee. Its spring here in Germany , the whole town was out, walking, sitting on benches, having ice cream and coffee, shopping, chatting, laughing...
(UK) I have unlimited holidays. In practice, this means up to 35 days a year (effectively 7 weeks, not including bank holidays which are on top of that). Those 35 days are pretty much available without question. Beyond that, it's subject to workload and resource considerations. If someone has a wedding or something specific comes up, and they have some credit in the bank in terms of their contribution and value, it genuinely can mean 45-50 or more days a year. I think it works quite well because it's self regulating. Generally people don't want to be seen as the ones taking 40-50 days unless they feel they have earned it without question. That 35 day upper expectancy under normal circumstances is something that employees have quickly established for themselves. The vast majority of people take 25-35 days a year. But everyone really appreciates that its available, and they respond to the sense that they are responsible - it's for them to balance it and value their own contribution against being available, or being on leave.
I get 25 days paid, and I buy (cheaply!) 24 days extra each year (in the Netherlands). Almost every staff meeting, the director of the department urges us to take those days and don't let them go to waste. That is the difference. People, even managers are used to it and like to take vacation themselves too. One disadvantage, we only have a few public holidays, around 6, less than in other countries because we don't have independence day or world war 1 or 2 rememberance holidays. Only 1 extra if you are a civil servant (5th may, capitulation of Germany in the Netherlands).
We don't get much more public holidays in Australia, it's around 6 or 7 days a year...