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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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