Holiday leave in America?

[cibo]

Unlimited vacation is complete bullshit. You can never be fully off because you always have work to do. The best you can do is find a gap here and there between a project to sneak away. Or, you can work remotely from another country.

UK firms tend to be quite generous in time off but they pay a shit load less than US firms. UK firms are required to give at least 4 weeks vacation + Public holidays but most give like 4-5 weeks vacation +public in general. I bought an extra week so I have 6 weeks vacation. And when you're on vacation, you are off. None of this call you up crap I see with my US friends.

 

[cardguy]

Personally my dream holiday is to just stay at home and do nothing.

Sitting around the house drinking bourbon and reading books. My idea of heaven.

 

[Blackhawk]

It really varies with job and sector. The main thing teachers in the US love about their jobs is getting June, July and August off. Plus another 25 holidays off during the other 9 months that class actually is in session.

There's also a lot of companies that enforce mandatory vacation time, usually with a factory floor shutdown and the entire company going dark Christmas to New Years. There's some accounting tax thing that encourages companies to carry over as little vacation as possible year to year. I also see companies enforcing mandatory vacation use every quarter as a soft alternative to furloughs.