1-2 weeks every 12-18 months is seen as a lot? No one tell them about europe 😶
I guess everyone is doing macro-retirement every year in EU.
Isn't that like a short holiday?
In my home country a legal minimum is 4 weeks a year, so 1-2 weeks is half or a quarter of a holiday if you take it at once :3
Or if you split it into 2 parts you get 2 weeks off every 6 months instead of 12-18
In my US state state employees get:
Private employers have NO legal requirement to offer any time off.
The disconnect between public and private benefits requirements are ridiculous.
No one tell them about the majority of countries.
What the fuck is this gaslighting propaganda bullshit? People in the US have been taking vacations for decades; it’s not exclusive to GenZ, nor is it a “new trend”. I call bullshit.
Quiet quitting is just doing your job/acting your wage.
People on the internet love to make dramatic sounding names for normal stuff.
CONTENT! ENGAGEMENT!!
Speak for yourself. I'm all in on this trend and have even begun taking nano-retirements for about 16h each day.
Is the original satire? I know Americans are obsessed with presentism on the job, but even they understand the concept of a vacation?
It's hard to tell. I've worked at places that would definitely fire me for using a week of vacation, and legally in my state vacation isn't a tangible guaranteed thing; it's completely legal to just fire the employee instead if they try to use it without compensation. Practically some jobs don't have time off. You just get fired.
Thats … really worker unfriendly
My wife was fired from a job for getting sick (kidney stones). We were told if we don't like it, sue, but I bet you can't afford either with the medical bills. It took us years to pay for that stone.
There are some very unkind people out there who take advantage of their position. It's a right-to-work state which just means that you can be fired for any and no reason with no recourse. It's dystopian as hell. Most people in these positions put up with it because they enjoy eating.
Stuff like this really makes me want to scream.
And yet people just recently voted to make it all much much worse.
What are you, some kind of communist? Don't make me call ICE on you!
I’ll call dobrint on you
Oh nein! Bitte nicht Dobrindt!
In the U.S. it's a long propaganda history called "right to work." It's sold as being freedom and rights for the people, but really it just strips unionizing rights away and gives corporations power.
Like most laws in the U.S., it's all lies and only abject morons buy it.
Hi, Norwegian here, we have 5 weeks vacation per year, mandated by law. Oh, and the government takes 10% of your paycheck every month and pays it all out in July, so you have the money to go on vacation. Strong labor unions is the recipe.
American here. I work for a company that gives 5 weeks per year. It's great. I can take a 1-2 week vacation in the summer and various days and weeks off throughout the year. It doesn't hurt that my boss is great and almost never says no to time off. "Hey, this project is draining. I could really use a week off for mental recovery. It looks like nobody is off next week." "Go for it."
It's possible, fellow Americans. Unions are the way.
Not satire: https://www.fastcompany.com/91357784/what-is-a-micro-retirement-inside-the-latest-gen-z-trend
But they specify that unlike PTO, this is an unpaid time off, which can be a break inbetween jobs or a unpaid vacation.
Still fucking ridiculous to call it "micro-retirement"
Soon we will hear how gen z is having nano-retirements every 5 days of work that can include 2 days of no work and often destructive behaviour such as parties and binge watching tv.
What about those eight hours at night? I mean people hardly even think about work while they are dreaming.
I was working in a European branch of a SF based private company. It's a company that tries really hard to have good optics everywhere, from being listed as PBC down to "support and inclusion" talks.
US employees officially had "unlimited" vacation days, European had 25. Plus the company has a practice of giving an extra Friday off once a month, plus few days for Christmas break plus one year there was a week of summer break.
That year with a summer break employees in Europe got over 40 days of vacation. 35..37 without it. Plus bank holidays and sick leaves.
I was freaking out after learning that US employees with the unlimited time off were getting under 20. Whenever an employee was using more than 15 vacation days a year, they were presented with an inquiring interview from their manager trying to figure out why they need so much rest.
US has no work culture, it's exploitation.
Unlimited PTO is an accounting dodge because PTO shows up as a liability on the books if it is defined, because if they liquidate the business they need to pay it out in lieu. And number doesn’t go up.
Which is why they also don’t allow carry-over in most cases.
A company telling you you've got unlimited off days is actually really bad because it means they will just engage in this judging practise.
If they tell you you've got 25 days then that's great you know how many days you've got, if it's unlimited they start being argumentative around day 10. So in reality people with unlimited time off actually end up with fewer days.
Working for a European company is great, currently I'm being told that I need to take 2 weeks off, in addition to the holiday I've already booked off.
Yes, it's a real article, and it's worse than you are imagining.
If you want to suffer some more the author has a website. There's no actual content to be found there either.
Yeah this is just telling me we young people need to organize and demand more pto
Typical AI sludge, complete alien nonsense spouted confidently.
Charles currently takes work breaks every six months for two weeks at a time, and said he heard about micro-retirements from a friend. “I reward myself by traveling to different countries. Whether it’s Europe during the summer or other destinations, and so that’s a way that I incentivize myself to reach certain KPIs,” says Charles.
FML Charles has discovered holidays
Wow, that article is really trying to make vacations "special" and trying to indicate most people want this "new" thing as a benefit, unpaid.
When I've heard about "micro retirements" before, it's been in the context of taking months long sabbaticals, not a regular amount of paid time off to take in a single block
Thats "the Onion", right?
I mean, this cannot be written by a human who means this seriously. right??
Skipping lunch is now "intermittent fasting".
i call my bathroom trips nano sabbaticals
This has got to be fake, or engagement bait, right?
I wonder what this kind of people think about >20days of vacation in Europe.
Give me 30 days for a 40hr workweek or get out
If I don't take at least one 2 week period off per year, that's literally illegal. I'm also entitled to 28 days off per year that if I give enough notice and book in at least one week periods, an employer can't deny me without good reason.
This has to be a shitpost. I can’t believe this would be a real article.
1-2 weeks every 12 to 18 months? what is this, time off in Auschwitz?
I think it's probably a typo caused by AI and a lack of editing. As i understood it, a micro retirement is taking between several months and a year long sabbatical after 1-2 years of working, which is a bit more interesting than 1-2 weeks. So basically, it's working 1 year and taking a break from work for 1 year (whatever that entails, personal project, travel, possibly doing nothing at all).
Oh you mean a fucking short ass vacation?
Micro retirement? It's called holidays in Europe and we get around 1 month of it in total. Americans are so used to their corporate slavery they call it "micro retirement" now. Fucking hell.
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