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Re:The U.S. is risking an academic brain drain by ecshafer on Friday August 25, 2017 @03:32PM (#15101504)
In the us, I get 4 weeks and can take it basically however I want. I can choose to get 5 weeks by buying it. Depending on my team I might not be able to take the month leading up to taxes off, but a month off is easily done and happens often.
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Re:The U.S. is risking an academic brain drain by com2kid on Friday August 25, 2017 @04:15PM (#15101812)
> In the us, I get 4 weeks and can take it basically however I want. I can choose to get 5 weeks by buying it.

I can get up to six weeks with roll over. Used up 4 weeks for my wedding, still had 2 weeks left, saved one of them up so I'd have 5 weeks in total the next year.

It is very hard to paint the US with a broad brush.

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Re:The U.S. is risking an academic brain drain by alkonaut on Friday August 25, 2017 @05:15PM (#15102325)
I have 25 days in Sweden and my UK colleagues 28 days, but they still envy me because of how my 5w are mine to choose and aren't used up on bank holidays etc. When summer comes I usually have 4-5w off and they have 2 or 3.

Having to use pto for sick days also doesn't happen anywhere in the EU.

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