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MicroWave Aug 27, 2023

66% of Americans want European-style vacation policies, like being OOO for the entire month of August

66% of Americans want European-style vacation policies, like being OOO for the entire month of August - Lemmy.world

In many parts of Europe, it’s common for workers to take off weeks at a time, especially during the summer. Envious Americans say it’s time for the U.S. to follow suit. Some 66% of U.S. workers say companies should adopt extended vacation policies, like a month off in August, in their workplaces, according to a Morning Consult survey of 1,047 U.S. adults.

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bob_wiley Aug 28, 2023

Can someone from Europe explain how this works? Surely everyone isn’t off for the whole month of August. I’ve been hearing this for as long as I can remember. How do people do anything if everything is closed? Need food… sorry, the market is closed. Need to get somewhere… sorry, the trains aren’t running. Need clean water… sorry, we shut down the treatment plant for holiday.

I always hear about his August thing in Europe and it makes 0 sense. Is this some half-truth people blow up in attempts to manipulate others into getting something that doesn’t actually exist?

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Echo Dot

The thing is if you try and stay on work in August (Which is totally an option, the officers are not normally actually physically closed) you end up butting up against the fact that everyone else has left, and you can’t talk to anyone. So unless your job can be done 100% by you with zero input from anybody else you can’t get any work done.

Other companies and other departments are closed, so you just end up not doing anything anyway, so you may as well be off.

Besides is the one time of the year that you can guarantee all your friends / family will be available at the same time to go on holiday together.