TIL that the US has less paid vacation than Japan

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I guess it also explains why Americans travel so little. It's hard to go to e.g., Europe for 2 weeks if you don't have vacation time. And you can't go there for a weekend as the flight takes 10h, you have a jetlag etc

Wondering how it'd impact the GDP 🤔 

Found this chart in a longer article about the UBI experiments:

Wondering how it'd impact the GDP 🤔 

Found this chart in a longer article about the UBI experiments:
https://news.kiwistand.com/stories?index=0x66b29ac28fde24bf5ba7f716eaf2b5fc8feb20e5e157c92961b0465501b4cfb76059d464

Yeah, it's tough. Maternity leave policies in the US are also quite limited, which is unfortunate. It’s something that really needs more attention.

Funny. Yet most people perceive Japanese as insane workaholics and US folks as having a good balance.

Not a surprise really, but we don't have a word dedicated to dying at work from exhaustion. The Japanese do. So, take that for what its worth.

The problem in Japan is that because of social presssure people don't take vacation. 

I remember a co-worker who in five years for a company took like one day off, and that was because she got sick.

not surprising for a nation historically built on slavery.
lotsa of verbose elaborations, but that's that.

This a cool and very useful visualization tho

People will die on the hill of “no way people should have a week of paid vacation!!!” rather than do such a transformational thing such as implementing

Some Workers in my country don’t even have an idea what a paid leave is, the term itself when brought out sounds bonkers to them! 

Are you saying USA should be considered instead for Japan when picking out countries to visit during this summer

Wait till you peak at their paid and sick leave situation. Gets even worse

That’s surprising! It’s interesting to see how different countries prioritize paid vacation time