We're 20x more productive than 40 years ago, yet still work the same hours or more for pay increases that barely keep up with inflation.
I went from 8 weeks / years to 4 or 5. Currently 3. Ha.
I cannot recharge the same way ( meaning : travel for weeks at a time, or chill hard for 2 weeks in a row )
It’s flexible all right. But I feel like I’m always working somehow. Work is near, lurking.
I’m nursing a nice little depression that I feel a road trip would cure easily. Too bad I need to keep my last week of vacation for Christmas week.
1) it was 7 and some change. Not 8w 2 ) due to a special arrangement with my employer.
Those 6 weeks are the norm.
But it become increasingly common to ask for another week as a perk it you are a skill worker.
I my last French job I had weird hours and overtime in the weekend because of the industry I was in. It’s leads 7 and some changes weeks.
So, not 8.
The US is a good environment to innovate, but it's mostly good for companies and not people.