In Germany every company I worked for offered 30-33 paid days off + public holidays + (nearly) unlimited sickdays. In my earlier career stages I could even transfer my overtime hours into paid days off. Did a 6 week trip through Asia while working in consulting.
lol I moved from the USA to Japan and I can't wait to get back to the great holidays and sick time I got in the US. ugh
The US might be worse than Europe but it really really sucks over here in Japan. And a number of the managers pushing this at my company are European too.
I’ll never understand that mindset. Work to live, not live to work. If you got hit by a bus tomorrow you’d be replaced in a week and no one at work would even think of you a few months later. It’s no wonder Japan is struggling to get people to have kids
I work from home (finance industry), so I take off around 3 days per week. This is the U.S. not Japan. East Asian work culture is intolerable, mainly because the pay is peanuts.
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u/larrylustighaha Jun 23 '24
In Germany every company I worked for offered 30-33 paid days off + public holidays + (nearly) unlimited sickdays. In my earlier career stages I could even transfer my overtime hours into paid days off. Did a 6 week trip through Asia while working in consulting.