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  • Germany

    I've been off work for three or four years now. Long Covid is a bitch. The paperwork was monstrous but now me and my wife get paid by a combination of the state's pension, health insurance so my wife gets paid for caring for me and my unable-to-work (can't think of the proper name) insurance.

    But usually I'd get 26 to 30 vacation days per year.

  • UK. 30 days plus Bank Holidays as paid leave. Also, we have a flexible working system where we can work additional hours to accrue up to five days' leave. Longest continuous period I've taken off was three weeks. It's also WFH four days a week.

    When I was applying for this job I was offered - and accepted - a job at an American company which paid a few thousand more but didn't do flexi hours or WFH. It actually felt pretty good letting them know I wouldn't be starting and why.

  • US, I just got to offer stage with a company and the PTO was 10 days... I'm originally from the UK, and previously worked with startups from other countries, so this is shocking to me. More infuriating was the response from my friend group when I complained about it. "Yeah that's pretty standard" and I'm like "ok but it's also shit?"

  • In the UK, for a university. 26 days + 8 days bank holidays. I've been offered the chance of 'buying' an extra 10 days (salary sacrifice, spread over the year), I might go for it.

  • Sweden. 30 days of PTO per year.

    I usually do three weeks in summer, two over Christmas and save the rest for random extended weekends when the public holidays align.

    Also, I have about 90 days of paid, and 45 barely paid days parental leave left to take out. There was a total of 480 days for me and the Mrs to share in-betweenst ourselves per kid. I took four months off. Plus another 10 daddy-days to use immediately after baby was born.

  • France - never got some since i always was in internship/short/seasonal contracts. I have huge free time in unemployment periods though, and some are 'paid' by social aids, around 1 week each month if i worked the previous one. The legal basis is 30 days otherwise.

  • US, unlimited vacation and PTO and the major holidays off. We’re encouraged to take off a minimum of 1wk per quarter. Definitely unique in the states. I work for an extremely large startup. Don’t know how long this vacation plan will last. lol.

  • I work for a US company but my contract is governed by Canadian and Ontario labour laws. The company offers unlimited time off but that's illegal in Canada so we have unlimited time off minimum four weeks. We take as much time off as we want as long as our job gets done.

  • US

    My situation is a little fucked up because I work 12 hour shifts, but PTO is based around 8 hour days because that's what most employees here work and they haven't made any special exemptions for us. These numbers are going to be based around 8 hour days because I don't feel like doing the math

    Vacation time- 10 days for new hires, and you get 5 additional days at 5, 13, and 19 years, so assuming I stick around for 19+ years I'll have 25 days. You can carry over up to 15 unused days to the next year

    5 personal days, no carryover

    Sick days accrue at 1 day per month, so essentially 12, with unlimited carryover,

    1 personal holiday

    Certain things like perfect attendance, coming in for overtime, etc. can earn you "flex time" which actually is usually awarded in 12 hour increments.

    I'm kind of bad at using my PTO. My schedule is kind of wonky and I work less days overall than most people and tend to just slot most of my vacation plans into that. If I plan things right I also only need to take 2 days off to get a whole week, and every other weekend I have a 3 day weekend. I don't tend to take a lot of elaborate vacations, 3 day or less trips are kind of my norm. Every couple years I'll do something a bit more elaborate and take a week or more, but more often my PTO tends to get used for other things besides going on vacation. I have a week coming up that I took off to paint some rooms in my house for example.

  • US. 30 days per year, plus all federal holidays and a handful of extra days. Also unlimited sick leave with supervisor approval.

    Edit: Missed the other part of your question. I usually take a week here or there, but try to take at least one stretch of 2-3+ weeks every year.

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