Holiday.

Tomous wrote:25 days plus bank holidays. You can also buy up to 5 extra days which we'll be definitely doing next year.

I could never live in America where they get a few weeks on average. They fully expect employees to devote their lives to their jobs but can sack them on a whim for pretty much whatever they want. Greatest country on Earth though....

Peter Crisp wrote:With the US there's also a whole lot of peer pressure to not be seen as letting the side down by not being at work constantly and they've been brought up to believe in this whole US work ethic idea where if you do take holiday you're seen as lazy and selfish.

Alvin Flummux wrote:

Peter Crisp wrote:With the US there's also a whole lot of peer pressure to not be seen as letting the side down by not being at work constantly and they've been brought up to believe in this whole US work ethic idea where if you do take holiday you're seen as lazy and selfish.

It's called the Protestant Work Ethic, and it has been a part of the nation's fabric since it was a mere collection of settlements, clinging fast to the North Atlantic seaboard.