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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.
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.
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.
The colour scheme sucks.
Cursed GIS color scheme
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.
I’m pretty sure that the number for Switzerland is wrong. There’s at least 20 days of paid leave and one federal holiday, but in each canton there’s at least 6 additional holidays, which makes for an absolute minimum of 27 days of paid leave.
Love how 30 looks almost as pale as 0
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.
This is most likely very inaccurate following what the law says. In Germany a full-time employee has the right to (must take) 20 days paid leave, however many people have 30 with just very few having the minimum of 20 (I don’t know anyone in in their 30s have this few). It is mostly for student workers or other in between jobs. The statistic instead should be based on average paid-leave taken.
The Netherlands is not the worst to live, but I for one could use a few days extra off for sure…
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
You were just the first comment in the thread when I opened the post so 🤷
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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!”
Lol, all of the Mexican countries wreck the US in paid time off
“Mexican countries”. That’s where they speak Mexican, right? Peak US geography right here.
mexican countries???
Yeah, the Mexican countries from Fox News.
While not all places will give PTO or weekly paid holidays, the US still has federal holidays that cause most businesses to close. Even people in essential fields are still required to take the day off if they are salary.
There is no law, because essential fields or individual businesses can still be working. US should at least have 7 days for the 7 paid federal holidays. Getting time and a half on a holiday counts as it being recognized as a holiday for essential jobs.
Also interesting reading the comments about how many other countries are wrong. I have a hunch this entire graphic is wrong.
Edit: leave it to Lemmy to down vote accurate information just to spread unnecessary hate for everyone’s hate boner.
No amount of anecdotal bullshit will change the FACT THAT USA HAS FEDERAL HOLIDAYS and this graphic is WRONG.
A day off is not even remotely the same as paid time off.
There’s no excuse for the United States being the shit stain that it is.
The 7 paid federal holidays are either paid time off, or time and a half depending on your job and employer.
There’s no requirement for paid time off at the federal level in the United States. Zero.
Some companies and public sector workers offer these benefits, but it’s not required according to current federal law.
While not all places will give PTO or weekly paid holidays, the US still has federal holidays that cause most businesses to close.
Not really accurate to count all federal holidays, and a lot of businesses don’t close even on the ones you can’t count.
Even people in essential fields are still required to take the day off if they are salary
Nah, people like healthcare workers still have to show up on holidays. Actually it’s often some of our busiest times of the year. We’re usually offered pto that we can choose to take some time else if we work on holidays.
There is no law, because essential fields or individual businesses can still be working. US should at least have 7 days for the 7 paid federal holidays.
There is only 6 holidays where the majority (77%) of American workers are offered some kind of PTO, and that’s only accounting for people who are working full time.
There is no law because America doesn’t care about its workforce. Other countries have essential employees as well, they are just compensated differently.
^leave it to Lemmy to down vote accurate information just to spread unnecessary hate for everyone’s hate boner.
Nah, there just plenty of people here who have had to work on holidays and know you are full of shit.
My bad, I forgot EMS and other essential workers don’t go to work in other countries during holidays. Thanks for informing me. No need to understand time and a half when 0.00% of people work.
It’s very important to make sure we only apply a rule to one country and not the others for an info graphic. Double standards are great, aren’t they. Resume your incorrect hate boner.
Also interesting reading the comments about how many other countries are wrong. I have a hunch this entire graphic is wrong.
I certainly would not be surprised if there are some inaccuracies, but of the comments I’ve read so far suggesting that the numbers don’t capture the truth appear to be misunderstanding what the data is showing (nationwide statutory paid time off and paid public holidays).
As an example, you mentioned the 7 paid federal holidays in the USA. But similar to some of the other observations in question, those aren’t what this graphic is capturing. Outside of government jobs and maybe certain industries, those 7 public holidays are not required by statute on a nationwide level – it’s not even close to applying to everyone. Even if we agree that most jobs give people paid time off (but not because they are legally required to) or that some states require it, that’s still not what this graphic is showing, so those don’t make the 0 in any way inaccurate.
In my home state I “earn” one paid hour sick time for every 30 hours worked. I get no other paid time off because it isn’t required by law. Working for the same company in a different state I get exactly zero paid time off because that state doesn’t have a law requiring it. Tell me again how that isn’t zero paid time off.
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.
