The average American is lucky to get 11 vacation days from their employer each year.

In many parts of Europe, it’s common for workers to take off weeks at a time, especially during the summer. Envious Americans say it’s time for the U.S. to follow suit.

Some 66% of U.S. workers say companies should adopt extended vacation policies, like a month off in August, in their workplaces, according to a Morning Consult survey of 1,047 U.S. adults.

  • Deelala0516@lemmy.world
    16·
    11 months ago

    I have, what most in the U.S. would consider, a very generous PTO allotment (accrues at 19.5 hrs per month) and I could not even fathom asking for an entire month off at a time. Who are these 34%?? Crap wait, I think I just realized. 🤦

      • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
        6·
        11 months ago

        Lol, business literally won’t fail if someone being gone. And anyway, you could literally phone in or do a teams meeting for that one super critical meeting if you took a month off.

      • SCB@lemmy.world
        5·
        11 months ago

        If the business does fail from employees being gone, the business has solvable problems in succession planning and organization.

    • Chocrates@lemmy.world
      5·
      11 months ago

      I have “unlimited” PTO, but that just means I have as much PTO as my manager thinks I deserve :/