Should India Have Less Paid Holidays?
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 07 September 2011, 02:41 IST   |    40 Comments
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Back in America the scenario is a lot more different. Working more makes Americans happier according to a study published recently in the Journal of Happiness Studies. That is because Americans associate their with success.
U.S. offers employees no statutory minimum holiday
U.S. offers employees no statutory minimum holiday allowance but the typical average is 15 days compared to Canada which offers a statutory minimum of 10 days. "Americans maximize their... [happiness] by working, and Europeans maximize their [happiness] through leisure," says Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn, the study's author and an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. But critics say it's time for a change. "There is simply no evidence that working people to death gives you a competitive advantage," said John de Graaf, the national coordinator for Take Back Your Time, a group that researches the effects of overwork. He noted that the United States came in fourth in the World Economic Forum's 2010-2011 rankings of the most competitive economies, but Sweden, a country that by law offers workers five weeks of paid vacation came in second.

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