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Hi, Norwegian here, we have 5 weeks vacation per year, mandated by law. Oh, and the government takes 10% of your paycheck every month and pays it all out in July, so you have the money to go on vacation. Strong labor unions is the recipe.
American here. I work for a company that gives 5 weeks per year. It’s great. I can take a 1-2 week vacation in the summer and various days and weeks off throughout the year. It doesn’t hurt that my boss is great and almost never says no to time off. “Hey, this project is draining. I could really use a week off for mental recovery. It looks like nobody is off next week.” “Go for it.”
It’s possible, fellow Americans. Unions are the way.
5 weeks seems like a good minimum to shoot for, yeah. Even with technically “unlimited” vacation, I tended to take 1 week a quarter, 2 in the summer, and then whatever Christmas to New Year’s is. I wish I could take more in the Summer of course, but it is what it is.
aussie here. 4 weeks. required by law.
I’m probably going to move out of Austria in a few months and the one thing that’ll take a while to get used to is that in most other European countries you ‘only’ get 13 wages a year instead of the 14 I’m used to.
My vacation money usually goes to taxes each year as a Dutch citizen.
It’s a sick joke imo. “Here’s the money we took from your wage for vacation, but also here are the tax bills that are equal to that amount”.
Thanks i hate it.
I’m saving up my own wage for retirement and investing it myself because i have zero trust in these systems. I watched my dad get screwed out of a large part of his retirement money.
Nationalised oil probably helps too
We don’t have oil and we have the same in Denmark. I have 7 weeks paid vacation, and of course free healthcare and education, etc.
Can I come over?
You will need to learn the language if you want to stay for longer (like you should). Also, bring your friends and family, it’s not easy making new ones.
No, it is pretty standard European fare.
Yeah, well… Not being founded by insane protochristofascists probably helps?
I dunno, what are we calling the Romans these days?
Well, thry were, at founding, not christofascist.
Nah, but certainly prototyping it by some point.
They still admitted to appreciating wine and fucking.
We have pumpkin seed oil in Austria, and apparently its enough to give us 5 weeks PTO per year, 2 weeks of paid nursing leave and up to 72 sick weeks for a single illness.
Have you considered giving all that profit to one bald man, though? Think of what you’re missing out on! 🚀
5 weeks by law in Finland as well
4 weeks by law in the Netherlands, usually the union adds another week to that.
Nationalised natural gas probably helps too
j/k am Dutch
Same in France. We don’t have oil but we have strikes.
What’s stopping the US from nationalizing its oil and other natural resources?
The needs of the 0.1% outweigh the needs of the peasants.
Bribery.
Typical AI sludge, complete alien nonsense spouted confidently.
Yep that was my first thought too. Gotta be AI written because it makes zero sense.
The part that gets me is that syntactically and lexically it makes perfect sense, so you actually have to think about it before realizing it’s totally worthless. The old signals of quality and care in communication are meaningless.
People with poor critical thinking skills are going to be fucking lost at sea this coming decade. They have no tools to tell what’s worth believing anymore.
You mean truthiness?
How did we get to the point where this is published as something serious?
Can I go live naked in the forest and forage for mushrooms instead? I want to macro-retire.
Well you have fun.
Meanwhile I’m gonna MEGA RETIRE.
Which basically just involves croaking and not working for the rest of time
What if I train AI on your life’s data and force the AI you to work 9-5 until the Big Crunch?
This has got to be fake, or engagement bait, right?
Honestly, as someone who doesn’t like in America I feel like this wouldn’t surprise me if it was real from there.
Where I live you have minimum 4 weeks annual leave a year…
Everytime I read something that makes me frustrated or that sounds ridiculous I assume it’s rage bait because it almost aways is.
Thats “the Onion”, right?
I mean, this cannot be written by a human who means this seriously. right??
Shit like this is published only to set the bar even lower than it is today. It has no other purpose as they know most intelligent people will not read anything but the headline. They just inject this dogshit into the collective consciousness so that they can normalize a type of work that is a little better than indentured servitude.
I think it’s probably a typo caused by AI and a lack of editing. As i understood it, a micro retirement is taking between several months and a year long sabbatical after 1-2 years of working, which is a bit more interesting than 1-2 weeks. So basically, it’s working 1 year and taking a break from work for 1 year (whatever that entails, personal project, travel, possibly doing nothing at all).
That’s what i expected when it said “micro retirement”…something worthwhile like 6 months+
This has to be a shitpost. I can’t believe this would be a real article.
…so you haven’t read the business press at any point this century?
If I don’t take at least one 2 week period off per year, that’s literally illegal. I’m also entitled to 28 days off per year that if I give enough notice and book in at least one week periods, an employer can’t deny me without good reason.
Where, might I ask? For a friend. Asking for a friend.
afaik this is the case on most of europe.
And Australia for the most part. I don’t think there’s a legal requirement for people to take a minimum amount of leave every year, but there’s definitely a 20 day annual entitlement.
I South Africa,you must take 10 consecutive days leave per year, and if you haven’t done it in 18 months, HR is gonna give you a shit time. Also, most companies offer between 22 and 30 days leave per year.
Estonia. Our 28 days includes weekends though - some countries give you fewer days but weekends aren’t counted so it ends up being about the same.
In Germany it’s 30 days a year, excluding weekends. So a total of 6 weeks. At least in my field of work.
Oh you mean a fucking short ass vacation?
1-2 weeks every 12 to 18 months? what is this, time off in Auschwitz?
I do that, but i’ve been wfh since 2015 so every day i have mini holidays in between workflow
You mean lunch break?
If i meant lunch break i’d say lunch break
Wake up, Hustle, and Grind. Ain’t no time for time off. You think Elon Musk became a billionaire while chasing tail or doing drugs or spending all his time playing video games?
Yeah because hard work will make you a billionaire. 😂
Well no. Technically the baby mammas, ketamine and path of exile came way after he inherited all the diamond mine money… :D
Just 2 weeks? That is called a vacation!
It could just be me but I think this is what you would call a “vacation.”
did similar for years with sick time which was use or lose 10 days a year. boss complained my calling in sick Fridays and Mondays had become a pattern. well yeah. worked at a community college in illinois. not a slave.
We used to do that in my generation, but it was just called getting laid off. 😂
I just listened to a news/information show regarding studies done on millennial and GenZ that found 4/10 of this cohort also worked a side gig in order to hedge against layoffs. Often, many of these side gigs are not glam type… like influencers etc. Many of these jobs are like working in service – nannys, retail, food service – stuff that can’t be replaced by AI or a remote offshored employee. So this report was on NPR today…
microaggression
