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The colour scheme sucks.
Japan has 16 public holidays, at least according to this: https://publicholidays.jp/2025-dates/
What about paid public holidays?
0 of them are specifically codified in employment law as paid time off or a day to be taken off, however are considered by default as non-work days in law so working that day would, in most cases be entitled to overtime pay increase or alternatively a replacement day off. They are also culturally accepted as days off, and there are other holidays like Obon festival next week where taking time off is very common.
Technically speaking the minimum is zero paid leave for new employees, but after a continuous 6 months of 5 days or 30h/week work or more with good attendance, an employee is entitled by law to 10 days of paid leave (likely the figure cited) which scales gradually each year to 20 at 6.5 years tenure. Part time employees receive a partial entitlement which is as little as 1 day off if 48-72 days is worked in a year (1 day/week).
So it’s complicated, unless the source for the map used a standard method for all countries to compare equally (e.g. a full time employee’s minimum legal entitlement after 12 months at a company).
Some kind of a standard method. Similarly in the states, there is 0 PTO required by law, though it’s common for places to offer some amount and include federal holidays.
Yemen? Wasn’t expecting that.
Well this map also includes Sudan, I doubt it is possible/useful to make a statistic about a country that is at civil war.
Second paragraph is wrong - UK law mandates 20 paid days off, plus there are 8 paid public holiday days
US doesn’t have paid public holidays?
My husband applied for a high level management position at a nonprofit and they only sent him the benefits info after his 3 interviews and after he settled on pay. Turns out they only offered 6 days of holidays a year: Christmas Eve and Black Friday didn’t make the list. They offered him 1K more money, twice, but wouldn’t budge on the holiday pay. Fucking incredible if you ask me.
Not legally mandated paid holidays. Your employer is not required to give you PTO, sick leave, or paid holidays.
can you feel the freedom? Land of the free!
Hell yeah, best of Latin America
So a map that shows who is required to give the most time off. One can still give more than is required.
Yemen seems like a bad idea, so off to Libia I go!
My question about Libya, given it literally currently had two governments that control large parts of the country, and is in a frozen civil war, is what Libyan state is this map referring to?
GOP: “Filthy evil socialism by country, USA best #1, 0 Socialism, all hail glorious leader”
Color scale dumb af and USA is fucking backward.
You’re not wrong. I have >30 paid days off a year when you include the holidays, but a lot of my peers have zero. They don’t understand what it means to wake up one morning and just be like… nah, I don’t want to go to work today.
I’m pretty sure that the number for Switzerland is wrong. There’s at least 20 days of paid leave and one federal holiday, but in each canton there’s at least 6 additional holidays, which makes for an absolute minimum of 27 days of paid leave.
This is most likely very inaccurate following what the law says. In Germany a full-time employee has the right to (must take) 20 days paid leave, however many people have 30 with just very few having the minimum of 20 (I don’t know anyone in in their 30s have this few). It is mostly for student workers or other in between jobs. The statistic instead should be based on average paid-leave taken.
United States over here with literally zero… haha!
land of the free ™!
Free to lie dying in the streets while everyone serious over your body.
Ew, what an eyesore, can’t you go be sick and die on someone else’s block please.
not even independence day. absolute cucks to capitalism.
Seeing a chart like this is absolutely insane.
I understand folks are debating the accuracy of some of the European countries here, but United States is fucking ridiculous… what a shit show.
TBF, the last time I worked a job that offered no PTO was before COVID.
These days people won’t except minimum wage shit jobs with no benefits. If a job becomes too shitty or demanding, Americans just quietly quit and move on to the next thing.
The image says that it is including public holidays, but Spain’s number is not.
There are 14 mandated public holidays (8 at national level, 4 by region and 2 local ones).
And Belgium is also missing 12 days since the workweek is 38 hours but in effect that’s just given out as 12 more holidays.
That wouldn’t make sense in this graph as then you’d get into the minutia of that happening everywhere like Québec being 37.5h as full time
But that should be accounted for, otherwise the whole graph is pointless.
BTW Hungary is also off, because the amount of days off depends on your age.
The only real info from this whole map is that everywhere in the world except the US there is a concept of holidays.
Part of me doesn’t believe this because based on my experience with our Mumbai office those fuckers are constantly off.
