I come from a country that you get 21 days leave per year, how do you manage to survive with just 10 days off? I can’t visit my country every year, for instance, the flight alone is 2 days, not forgetting jet lag. If I want to enjoy my visiting my family, I have to work three years, without using my leave days. I am not complaining but it’s sad that I can only get a week off in a year! How many leave days do you get?
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Try being self-employed. 0 days off per year and 0 sick days.
Technically I have unlimited PTO. But I’m pretty sure my boss won’t be pleased if I actually take the whole year off lol. So I take around 20~30 days off each year.
When I first came to Japan, I only had 10 days off per year though. Moreover, I needed to wait 6 months before I can use them. Fortunately, my home country is only a few hours away, so I can go back for a week each year.
Not everyone is in the same boat and many of us do have that many leave days, if not more.
I have national holidays plus 25 days of personal leave each year, 12 days sick leave, and various other leave categories for special situations.
I was working projects and wasn’t able to take a lot of leave this year, so my manager told me to take the last 15 work days off this year and I carry over any unused leave into next year.
work at a good company you’ll get 20 days.
It’s not 10 days, it’s 10 *working* days. Add 10 working days to 3 weekends and you get 16 days off in total. Check it out on a calendar.
You are complaining
I had an offer with 40 days leave, my current company has 26 days. So yeah, Japan can be comparable with EU countries. Probably not with Australia. I hear Australia have months off. If days of leave is very important to you, then definitely look for something better. Take advantage of the labor shortage.
Wait till you find out that if you get sick you have to use one of those 10 days off!
Yes that is right, there is no general paid sick leave. Some companies offer sick leave to their employees of course, but it really depends on the company.
So got the flu and need to stay in for 2 days? That is only 8 days off left…
You *should* be complaining, the entire full-time work idea is a scam, and sadly there are too many uninformed bootlickers downvoting you who just don’t know any better.
Keynes, who was no radical, predicted we’d be working 15h weeks max by now. With the technology and wealth that exists in the world, we absolutely could. The only reason we keep burning off our precious lives at work is to make those at the top richer. If you look at wealth concentration over the years, there’s no need to be an economic genius to see this.
Capitalism truly is a pyramid scheme. It’s a 300 year old blip in humanity’s 200000 year old history. It did a few good things in its early days, but it’s high time we moved on to something better.
Don’t you guys have the weeklong offs? Golden week. Obon?
Just think, Japanese people can literally work until they are 65 before they can take a two week vacation abroad!
That is the statutory minimum. It was mandated with the idea that an 18 year old or a 22 year old joins a company for the long term straight out of high school or college for a workforce mostly involved in manufacturing. Then employees get another day off for each year of service. It wasn’t designed for mid-career hiring. If you join a company these days as an experienced worker and they offer 10 days off, that is BS and you should negotiate more. My company offers essentially unlimited PTO and then 5 days of sick leave. The idea is that sick leave is unexpected and with PTO you are informing your supervisor beforehand. Personally I’m pretty swamped so haven’t taken too much time off for a real “vacation” in over a year but my schedule is completely flexible so if I need to take an afternoon off or whatever I can do it anytime for any reason.
I have 25 days of vacations and 10 days of sick leave plus national holidays. There are companies out there offering good stuff but honestly it’s not the majority so I understand where you’re coming from