It seems that most US citizens only get 14 days, and they don't even use them! I wonder why that is.
Expedia vacation survey
Days given Days taken Days unused France 30 30 0 Spain 30 30 0 Denmark 30 30 0 Brazil 30 30 0 Germany 30 28 2 Italy 28 21 7 UK 25 25 0 Sweden 25 25 0 Netherlands 25 23 2 Norway 25 21 4 India 25 20 5 Ireland 21 20 1 Argentina 21 20 1 Australia 20 15 5 Canada 16 15 1 Mexico 15 14 1 Singapore 14 14 0 U.S. 14 12 2 Japan 11 5 6 South Korea 10 7 3 Total 24 20 4
Germany, France, Spain and Denmark top the list with 30 paid vacation days, while the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and the UK come in second with 25 days. European respondents also turn most of it into holidays. German respondents said they use 28 of 30 days, while France, Spain, Sweden and Denmark use all of them. American respondents earn 14 days, from which they use 12.
Asia, however, is more vacation averse. According to the survey, Japan is the most vacation-deprived nation in the world, with respondents saying they receive 11 paid days each year but only use five of them. South Koreans take seven out of their 10 days.
Hard working employees can also be found in India, where five days from a total of 20 are not used, respondents said. “In India, vacations tend to be viewed as a guilty habit,” marketing head of Expedia India, Manmeet Ahluwalia, said in a press release. “As many as 54% Indians spend vacations usually secretly checking emails.”
Besides economic performance, vacation levels might have an impact on the employees’ temper. Top scorers in the recentLegatum Institute’s listof the world’s happiest countries have many things in common.
One of them, however, is a high number of vacation days.
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