So, soon we will see AI generated job descriptions for American companies offering 6-month paternity leave and 30 days/year paid vacations?
So, soon we will see AI generated job descriptions for American companies offering 6-month paternity leave and 30 days/year paid vacations?
I know it's a rather privileged thing to say, but I just passed up a job opportunity because I don't want to get back to 30 paid vacation days. Once you get used to 47 (took a voluntary paycut of 5 percent for 12 extra days), where you get so many side projects done because you have the time, it's hard to go back to the normal 28-35. So I have no idea why the US rarely goes above 20 or whatever they have.
I dropped to a four-day week (with 20% pay drop so in the same ballpark as your 5% for 12 days off) for stress reasons “temporarily” almost exactly two years ago. The burnout problem is finally looking like it might permanently recede (family health matters are much more stable, some work matters have been addressed, I've sorted a few personal things out, some external problems have been fixed or just told to fuck off, etc.) but I think I'm going to stick with the four days week as long as I can.
The extra money would be very useful to me right now, but I'm surviving without it and the three-day weekend is really working for me. I'm even finding time to relearn a second language on case the UK follows the US too far down the full-fash route and I feel the need to get out of dodge [I refuse to be the sort of Brit who rocks up everywhere expecting everyone to speak English!].
Off topic, but less than a decade ago paternity leave in the Netherlands was just two days, and it's still nowhere near six months, unfortunately.
In Denmark there's 4 weeks for the mother (right after giving birth) and then 24 weeks for the mother and their partner each, i.e., a total of 52 weeks. It's also possible to transfer weeks between the parents.
The companies want the FREEDOM to mistreat employees FREELY.
But the moment when recruit refuses offered wage, they will start crying that nobody wants to work anymore.
Perhaps this will fix the work-life balance for American people in the long term.