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Comment by rekwah | Hacker News Reader

4-day workweeks would be nice but what I really want is 50 hour weeks (2hr extra per day) with a summer vacation in June/July/August.

Let's say the typical job has 3w vacation: 40hr x (52w - 3w vacation) => 1960hr/yr

Now to get back to that same territory: 50hr x (52w - 12w vacation) => 2000hr/yr

Yes please.

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Maybe you should move to France where something very similar to the above is pretty much encoded in law (with caveats of course).

I have not worked in France but as far as I understand, if you work more than 35 hours a week you will get the extra hours as additional time towards your annual leave:

https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F34151

Most countries in Europe have similar schemes. In Belgium, a work week is 38 hours. If your contract states that you work 40 hour weeks, you get 12 extra days off every year.

In practice the extra time worked above the 35 hours goes into a different counter that you typically take one or two days at a time rather than batch it along the rest. Also it's fairly rare for people to take their 5 vacation weeks in one setting, the employer still has a say and you still have to coordinate with colleagues.

That is a good point, although I used to work for a US multinational with people based in France and they often took 3-4 weeks in one go. More than that might be pushing it a bit.

Perhaps move to Finland? We have a default 37,5 hour work weeks and a 1mo summer vacation.

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