In the US, a decent company will give you three weeks total vacation. To get more than that can require decades of service (eg four weeks after 10 years with the company).
To “squander” two thirds of the allotment in one go is rare.
To “squander” two thirds of the allotment in one go is rare.
https://www.statista.com/chart/15005/statutory-minimum-paid-...
Generalizing a bit but there is less of a divide between “fast food service and grocery store clerks” and professionals in Western Europe compared to some other places. Workers are workers and they have certain rights as that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b...
And then you have parental days which are 480 in total per child which can be used both before they start preschool and for longer vacations when they are older. In Sweden it’s also quite common that both parents split it 50-50.
So 4-5 weeks of time off in the summer is not uncommon at all for parents and totally accepted by companies.
As you can imagine with the enshittification of literally everything in my lifetime, that moved to use it or lose it eventually. Then two years later, getting rid of it for 'unlimited PTO, how cool is that guys?'
Needless to say, that was the end of my run there.