it‘s not the average person but the average worker – and Germany has a lot of part-timers.
<Sees Japan lower than Australia> *doubt*
Yet another downvote for any post that uses the term “Czechia”.
Numbers seem odd.
365 day/yr – weekends 104 – 12 national holidays = 249, which leaves US *average* vacation days of 24 days.
the *average* US employee getting almost 5 weeks of vacation uh… feels pretty high? so i guess this includes part time/unemployed to skew average?
it should be higher, but most jobs offer like 2-3 weeks to start, then an extra week after X years of service, up to a max of about 5 weeks, so average being the max for an FTE seems kinda weird?
i guess, if its combining part time and unemployed hours into pool of full time workers, and overtime, i guess i’m not really sure what information anyone is supposed to glean from it? as for some of these cases, low=good, and for some cases low=bad?
The number of holidays are part of the pay. Anyone that dont like it could easily ask for less free time and pay their workers considerably more.
Lol and that’s an article… The graph doesn’t show average annual working time, if you look closely it shows “days of 8 hour shifts worked per year” and the big number beneath the lines is just the days multiplied by 8
This graph therefor does not show average working time since not everyone has an 8 hour per day 5 days per week job. Some countries don’t even have 40 hour weeks.
It just shows how many days people on average go to work if they work an 8/5 job, which is more like how many days sick leave and holidays they have on average. But since they messed up so badly in common logic when looking at their own graph, they probably also messed up making the graph from data that has little to do with 8/5 jobs so it’s probably just a senseless graph showing nothing
I don’t know where they/the OECD is actually getting their data from, but the UK number is suspiciously close to the number of weekdays in the year, less the number of public holidays, less a typical office worker’s 28 days PTO, multiplied by 7 hours’ work a day.
I have a lot of trouble believing that’s actually the average number of hours worked between part-time employees, shift workers, self-employed, etc., leaving aside that lots of offices work longer days.
>The US is the only advanced economy that doesn’t guarantee paid holiday for workers.
This continues to amaze me and it’s shameful.
The wealth of Germany is not that they work most. It is that they don’t.
“Why are you never moving back to the US from Germany?!?”
This is more an indicator of weekends/holidays/vacation than average hours worked.
Part of this is caused by how a country handles fertility. Paid maternal leave or how much child care costs can greatly affect total hours worked. In Germany, currently there are 300.000 Kita-spots missing because the state supply can’t keep up with demand. Women in many countries are left to stay home not because they want to but because options are limited.
This data is definitely wrong. I moved from the US to Canada (same company) and got 4 more holiday days. Maybe they are counting bank holidays or something that regular workers do not get off.
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it‘s not the average person but the average worker – and Germany has a lot of part-timers.
<Sees Japan lower than Australia> *doubt*
Yet another downvote for any post that uses the term “Czechia”.
Numbers seem odd.
365 day/yr – weekends 104 – 12 national holidays = 249, which leaves US *average* vacation days of 24 days.
the *average* US employee getting almost 5 weeks of vacation uh… feels pretty high? so i guess this includes part time/unemployed to skew average?
it should be higher, but most jobs offer like 2-3 weeks to start, then an extra week after X years of service, up to a max of about 5 weeks, so average being the max for an FTE seems kinda weird?
i guess, if its combining part time and unemployed hours into pool of full time workers, and overtime, i guess i’m not really sure what information anyone is supposed to glean from it? as for some of these cases, low=good, and for some cases low=bad?
The number of holidays are part of the pay. Anyone that dont like it could easily ask for less free time and pay their workers considerably more.
Lol and that’s an article… The graph doesn’t show average annual working time, if you look closely it shows “days of 8 hour shifts worked per year” and the big number beneath the lines is just the days multiplied by 8
This graph therefor does not show average working time since not everyone has an 8 hour per day 5 days per week job. Some countries don’t even have 40 hour weeks.
It just shows how many days people on average go to work if they work an 8/5 job, which is more like how many days sick leave and holidays they have on average. But since they messed up so badly in common logic when looking at their own graph, they probably also messed up making the graph from data that has little to do with 8/5 jobs so it’s probably just a senseless graph showing nothing
I don’t know where they/the OECD is actually getting their data from, but the UK number is suspiciously close to the number of weekdays in the year, less the number of public holidays, less a typical office worker’s 28 days PTO, multiplied by 7 hours’ work a day.
I have a lot of trouble believing that’s actually the average number of hours worked between part-time employees, shift workers, self-employed, etc., leaving aside that lots of offices work longer days.
>The US is the only advanced economy that doesn’t guarantee paid holiday for workers.
This continues to amaze me and it’s shameful.
The wealth of Germany is not that they work most. It is that they don’t.
“Why are you never moving back to the US from Germany?!?”
This is more an indicator of weekends/holidays/vacation than average hours worked.
Part of this is caused by how a country handles fertility. Paid maternal leave or how much child care costs can greatly affect total hours worked.
In Germany, currently there are 300.000 Kita-spots missing because the state supply can’t keep up with demand. Women in many countries are left to stay home not because they want to but because options are limited.
This data is definitely wrong. I moved from the US to Canada (same company) and got 4 more holiday days. Maybe they are counting bank holidays or something that regular workers do not get off.