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		greatgib 22 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft? Surprisingly, from France, Hen I work for US companies, the American employees were on holidays more often than the french ones. For example, here "sick leaves" days are not considered normal holidays that have to be taken in the year to not be lost.

Workaccount2 22 days ago [–]

Thankfully we don't have to rely on anecdotes, and can just check data. The average American works 300 (!) more hours a year than the average Frenchman.

37.5 days more, That's huge. And France isn't even the lowest in the EU.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_a...

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