Almost everyone has vacation in the summer (winter is cold and shit) so most office work slows down heavily during a few weeks and then picks up again during and after August..

Retail and stuff like that is obviously different.

[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Took my 3 weeks in July. It worked out well because our suppliers also slowed down significantly. The huge amounts of vacation the memes and braggarts claim just seemed ridiculous.

[–] ludwig@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It was exaggerated for comedic effect.

Here we get 25 days (5 work weeks) each year by law. Some get more; I don't know the average amount of days. Apparently you get 28 days if you don't get overtime compensation.

In general 4 consecutive weeks are used during the summer months.

You also get paid more during vacation, for some reason.

All other EU countries have a minimum of 20 paid days.