alt Hacker NewsFor people who aren’t familiar, Sweden takes summer holidays seriously. 25-30 days + public holidays is a normal amount of annual vacation time, and if an employee requests it and has the time available, it’s basically legally required to allow them to take a four-week contiguous summer break.
(See https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/sven...)
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Ditto Australia: https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/annual-leave
Full-time and part-time employees get 4 weeks of annual leave, based on their ordinary hours of work.This is normal in most countries apart from the contiguous break requirement.
I work for a UK company and most people take basically all of August off (I end up with two months of vacation days a year so I take August off and sprinkle some leave around the year) and I can confirm that taking a month off is great. You forget what it's like to work, really.
I thought it's basically the same in all of EU?
Not only that but the vacation is real. If someone is off then you should not expect them to answer at all (because if you do you’ll get very disappointed).