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Cakemeister:

--- Quote from: Mark Twain ---There are three kinds of lies; lies, damned lies, and statistics.

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polaris:

--- Quote from: shmokes on March 30, 2010, 06:33:44 pm ---It appears to me to be showing the number of days off . . . as in, "Hi Bob . . . I'm not coming into work next week.  Gonna take the family to the Grand Canyon."

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--- Quote from: shmokes on March 30, 2010, 06:41:10 pm ---Maybe that first statistic doesn't include vacation time.  Like it means calling in sick or missing work because you missed a flight or something.

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i really dont know what its saying, but i dont think its either of those, the UK figures are way too low

Vanguard:
I get 5 weeks + 10 statutory holidays + 1 floating holiday.

This isn't uncommon in the high tech sector.  

I think most high tech companies give 3 weeks for junior people these days.

Felsir:
In the Netherlands we have at least 20 days of mandated by law. I have 25 days off per year as a base plus 1 extra day per 5 years of employment (nicknamed "old geezer days").

The graph you linked says 1 day for the Netherlands and 367 for Iceland (if that is the average days per year, how many days does a year last in Iceland?) so there is definetly something wrong in that graph...

Your link seemed to use OECD as source, so I looked at that site and found this:
Average annual hours actually worked per worker
US: 1792
FR: 1542
NL: 1389


shmokes:

--- Quote from: Felsir on March 31, 2010, 08:10:59 am ---
if that is the average days per year, how many days does a year last in Iceland?


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I was confused about this too at first, but it's days not worked per 1000 people.  Between 1000 people the number of days that could be not worked in a day year is 365,000, not 365.


edit: fixed rather glaring typo  :)

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