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vacation in the developed world
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| Sweden 32 | Portugal 25 |
| Denmark 30 | Netherlands 25 |
| France 30 | Belgium 24 |
| Austria 30 | Norway 21 |
| Spain 30 | Switzerland 20 |
| Ireland 28 | Germany 18, 30* |
| Japan 25 | USA* 16 |
Source: Economic Policy Institute World Alamanac. *Average, Not required by law.
(German 30-day average from "Who has the time?" by Gary Cross, 7/08/2001 Boston Globe, D8.)
(Visit Joe Robinson's *Work to Live campaign for a minimum of 3 weeks of vacation for all Americans.)Note four updates buried in the following more recent article -Europe reluctantly deciding it has less time for time off, by Mark Landler, 7/7/2004 NYT, front page.
...Since the 1970's, Europeans have been willing to accept somewhat slower growth in wages as a price for fewer work hours and longer vacations.
- The French have an average of25 vacation days a year,
- while the Germans get30 days.
- The average in Japan is18 days
- and in the United States,12 days....
[The nagging US vacation issue came up in aTimemagazine article in the millennial year -]
What you need is more vacation! - A crusading editor wants three to four weeks mandated by law, by Steve Lopez of Santa Monica, 6/12/2000Time, 8.
Congratulations, ace. America's unprecendented economic gains were beaten out of your work-obsessed hide, and what have you got to show for it? A few extra bucks to pay the shrink or the barkeep? A promotion that bumps you up to 60 hours a week? A pager? The bone they haven't thrown you is the one you desperately need - more time away from the salt mine.
According to a raft of recent studies, Americans are working more and enjoying it less. Between 1995 and 1999, the number of people calling in sick because of stress more than tripled. "I've got a lot of clients coming to me from Silicon Valley," says Pam Ammondson...who runs a Santa Rosa...workshop to counsel...burnout [sufferers]. "It's a dream to make a million dollars overnight. But these people are not happy, their relationships are miserable, and they're taking a step back to ask what it's all about"....
Joe Robinson...of Santa Monica...an adventure-travel magazine editor, has been on talk shows nationwide pitching a law that would guarantee three weeks of vacation to anyone who works at a job for a year and four weeks after three years. On his website Escapemag.com [unfortunately defunct by 1/11/2002 - ed.], Robinson rants, "We're the most vacation-starved country in the world." [His campaign has] gathered 20,000 petitioners for longer vacations. "Small-business employees get an average of eight days off, while Europeans and Australians receive four to six weeks' paid leave," says Robinson. "In total hours, we now work two months longer each year than the Germans."
John Schmitt of the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank in Washington, puts the average American vacation at 16 days. If not for their higher unemployment rate, the Europeans would be laughing at us.
[They're laughing at us anyway, because of our much higher working-poor, welfare, disability, homelessness and incarceration rates - but we never talk about the 2,000,000 American inmates that "justify" the brutal nightmare of our corruption-bloated prison-industrial complex. We want the illusion that we're better than anybody else. Hey, we're the Land of the Free. Right? RIGHT?!! OK, attitude problem, we're locking you up for contempt of Court!]
Anyone who travels has noticed that whether you go to Palm Springs or Timbuktu, the French and Italians [and Australians - ed.] are already there. You could parachute onto an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean and find 200 Germans lounging around talking about where to go next.
The European economy may be a bit sluggish [or is it just non-bubble? -ed.], but just how productive, really, is the U.S. approach? "Half of all Americans report some kind of stress, and 63% say they'd rather have more time off than more money," says Robinson. "We have no identity outside of work, and there's this new glorification of the tech guy who works 18 hours a day...."
"It costs us 150% of an annual salary to replace an employee in terms of retraining a new person, the turbulence it causes in a unit and the impact on our client," says Denny Marcel, associate director of the burnout-prevention unit at Ernst & Young. Miller calls the accounting firm, which offers 3-5 vacation weeks to its 20,000-plus employees, one of the better companies when it comes to lightening the load.
Robinson...hopes a debate on the bottom-line realities of burnout will inspire a rash of enlightened self-interest among employers....
ALos Angeles Times article around 2/06/00, from a recent survey by the World Tourism Organization, presented even more dramatic average annual vacation figures, in vacation days -
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| Italy 42 | Brazil 34 | So. Korea 25 |
| France 37 | Britain 28 | Japan 25 |
| Germany 35 | Canada 26 | USA 13 |
A Boston Globe article explained the curious American system for denying themselves -
Who has the time? It's work, work, work, by Gary Cross, 7/08/2001 BG, D8.
Once again it's summer, and many of us are anticipating or enjoying our two-week vacations. We may be grateful - ...until we hear that the Germans get 30 days of paid vacation and the French enjoy five weeks.... While Italian workers are entitled to an average of 42 vacation days, Americans receive only 13..\..
[Note this is three days less than the number for Americans in last year'sTimearticle quoted above.]
Theyearn the time off not after 10 or 20 years of loyalty to a company [and who escapes downsizing that long in the U.S. any more?!] but as a legal right from the first year of work.
In the United States, employees in middle and large-sized companies usually have to wait five years before getting the third week of vacation, and often have to work for 25 years before they get the fourth....
Why do we, of all the wealthy nations, seem to get or take so few vacation days? Perhaps because trade unions and traditions of social entitlement are so weak in America. Paralleling the great union advances in the mid-'30s...
[How ironic that the garbage bag of trinkets with which FDR lured American labor away from their power lever (shorter hours) in the mid-'30s is still mistaken for "great union advances." In fact, they were signing their own death warrant - though World War II's massive withdrawal of labor hours from the job market gave them a one-generation stay of execution.]
...about half of American wage earners received company vacation plans in 1940, up from 5% in 1920. But this trend was restricted to larger companies.
[The result of the failure to design and implement an automatic system of Fluctuating Adjustment of the Workweek to offset unemployment during the Great Depression, or even to pass an appropriate rigid workweek for the time continued the huge power gradient between employees and employers that induced the Depression in the first place (by focusing employers on producing stuff and concentrating income without thinking about who in the world was going tobuyall the stuff) and resulted in the following Attitude among American (and other AngloSaxon) employers -]
...American employers continue to see vacations as a gift to valued and loyal employees....
[Oh yeah, strictly lone-sided loyalty, employee-to-employer. By contrast -]
Most European countries long ago made paid vacations a legal right.
[And whereas today (July/2001) in the U.S. -]
..\..according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, blue-collar workers in smaller firms, where unions are nearly non-existent, still get only 6.8 paid vacation days on average, compared with 8.6 days for clerical and sales employees.
[in Europe, by contrast -]
...Even workers at McDonald's restaurants...get 3-5 weeks' vacation.
This entitlement dates back to the years between the world wars when [European] governments began not only to set maximum workdays (similar to our 40-hour standard [legislated in] 1938 [to take effect in 1940, after stepping down from 44 hours in 1938 and 42 hours in 1939]) but also legislated vacation rights.
For example, the two-week vacation was one of the great victories of the Popular Front in France in 1936. The paid holiday was the only idea that the left and right shared. Both believed that wage earners should have an extended vacation to escape crowded cities and factories long enough to return to ancient villages or the seaside for family reunions. By the 1960s...Europeans had discovered sunny Spain and Greece on their own continent andworldtravel as their governments extended vacations with each advance in national prosperity.
Today, the French add to their vacations by trading in hours won from their newly reduced workweek of 35 hours for longer getaway time.
This "luxury" of leisure [our quotes - ed.] has not seemed to affect productivity in France or elsewhere in Western Europe, where output per labor hour has surged in recent years despite an average work year of 1,737 hours (compared with 1,562 hours in Germany and 1,365 in the Netherlands).
[Gary Cross, as an historian with his brain in the past, may be forgiven for thinking that productivity still has some connection with manhours, but most of our economists, analysts and media people share this view, even though it has now be completely obsoletely by wave after wave of worksaving and output-multiplying technology fordecadesnow.]
But isn't America still the richest country in the world, and don't at least the professional and self-employed classes have the choice to take more time from work?... For many profession[als] and entrepreneurs, working longer than wage earners is a point of pride [or classist snobbery - ed.]. Some...feel lost without their laptops or cell phones, even on holidays.... The leisurely two-week, cross-country vacation [of] the '50s and '60s seems like a quaint...custom today..\.. The long weekend getaway by air to an expensive resort or casino is increasingly common.... Especially in downsized corporations, where one worker may be doing to job of two, there's [only] that kind of time to spare....For the latest from the UN's International Labor Organization on the average number of working hours per year in 16 industrialized countries, see "Consider this... by the numbers," 7/08/2001 #3 on our timesizing pages. On the average number of working hours per week in 11 countries, see "Koreans put in most time on the job, survey shows," 6/6/2001.
Timesizing.com's view on all this is that vacation is just the icing. The cake is the amount of time off we get each and every week. For details on how we could cut the workweek while achieving continuous training in the workplace, on a gradual market-oriented basis, see our "social software" manualTimesizing, Not Downsizing, which is available online from *Amazon.com and at Harvard Books and the Harvard Coop (3rd floor) in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass., USA.
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