Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneurs (2019)

Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by ssss11 on Saturday February 15, 2020 @11:49PM (#22339846)

Thanks to those that replied, I learned something today.

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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by deilline on Sunday February 16, 2020 @05:11AM (#22340853)

The people that replied are likely software engineers and likely high earners in a very employee favored market.

It's true that it varies by employer.

Here are average numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs.t05.htm

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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by anticensor on Sunday February 16, 2020 @05:35AM (#22340938)

The average is just one week a year (two weeks a year past 15 years of work), well below world average.

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