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How do you expect to hire fewer people and give them all 6 weeks paid off a year?
Someone will have to cover those 6 weeks for each employee, and you will have to cover the pay for those 6 weeks of non productive time.
No work- no pay. As a physician, I "can" take off as much time as I want. Downside of that?
1. I continue to pay overhead each day. It costs $2,500 per day overhead, whether I am there or not.
2. "Delaying" patients- people want to be seen in a timely fashion. Time off delays appointments.
3. Maintaining referrals- if you are not available most of the time, patients will go elsewhere.
I don't think that there should be "paid" vacation for anyone. I would offer that younger people would take less vacation (more expenses) while older workers would take more (time vs. money).
How much vacation? I guess that depends on what you do for a living....I have been a commercial fisherman since 1979 and worked 5 months per year and took 7 months off. Mind you in the 5 months I worked it was an average of 16 hours a day and mostly 7 days a week....Tough, dangerous work but it was worth it..... I retired from actual hands on fishing in 2001 and since then lease out my license and quota........ Buying that boat was the best decision I ever made.
Are we talking about UNPAID vacation? 2 weeks... PAID vacations? 0 weeks... the employer isn't here to pay you for not working, no matter how much liberals would like to be paid for not working... two weeks for unpaid because everyone needs a vacation from work and two weeks is a fair number except for those who don't want to work, and people who don't want to work shouldn't be rewarded for wanting not to work...
Allow me to share a story with you (or not, skip this if you want). Waaaay back in the early 1970s, a friend who was about 21-22 at the time and in her first job, wanted to take some time off. Her boss said "no" as she didn't have any vacation time available. (I don't remember the details about that; if she'd used up all the available time she had or hadn't accrued any yet or what.) Then she asked about taking time off w/o pay. Her boss said "If we didn't need you here, you wouldn't have a job". Basically paid vacation means you're important enough to the company that every day off you take has to be accounted for. Now I know there are some jobs, generally considered "temporary" even if they're not actually temporary, where one gets paid only for time worked. I've had some jobs like that. Basically, you're working on an as needed basis, and the company can also not have work for you at any time.
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Originally Posted by weltschmerz
What difference does it make? Evidently, Americans don't take advantage of the vacation days they DO have. Vacation seems like an anathema to them.
Even when Americans have vacation time, they are scared to take it – often because they are afraid their bosses will think they’re lazy or that they could lose their jobs while on vacation. Employees and employers would both do well to change that: a lack of vacation cost employers in the long run. Employers who discourage vacations end up with stressed, unhappy employees. They also end up with unhealthy employees: not taking vacation has been found to correspond to increased chance of heart disease for both men and women. The cost of stress-related health care is estimated at $344 billion a year. Americans Don't Take Vacation Even Though It's One Of The Best Benefits Around - Forbes
Forbes likes to write a lot of "fluff" stuff. They should stick with what they do best, e.g. financial reporting. While this is tangentially related to finance, it's not exactly like writing about derivatives or something. In this case, they got their statistics (which are minimal in the article) from a survey done by Hotwire, a travel agency! Of course it's in Hotwire's interest for people to get more vacation.
I have never had a job (other than "temp" positions) that did not give at least two weeks vacation a year. Nor have I ever been discouraged from taking vacation. When DH worked for a small start-up, his boss looked askance when he took a week off, but he (boss) got over it. I think the boss thought everyone was as invested in this business as he was. I think DH set a precedent for that company, and enabled others to take vacation as well. In jobs he's had with mid-size to large companies, he's never had an issue with taking time off. In fact, engineering jobs tend to be extremely flexible with employees.
Then get an education, and work your way out of entry level positions. My fiancee has been with her company for 10 years. She gets 80+ days off a year including holidays.
You work to get to that level, you don't just walk in and demand it for a mail sorter job.
What is the name of company she works for?
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