Many cultures enjoy to spend their time working; others tend to prefer to have more free time. The majority of the American’s prefer to spend the most of their time at work and the Europeans much rather prefer to enjoy life and not be tied down to a desk. How is it that they manage to spend more time at home or travel whichever the case may be and still have a decent lifestyle?
If anyone were to ask you, "do you enjoy working?" what would your response be? For example, in “America’s Bizarre Secret to Happiness: More Work” by Daily Mail it states “Europeans and American respondents were asked to identify if they were ‘very happy,’ ‘pretty happy’ or ‘not too happy’. This survey found that the Europeans were describing themselves as very happy …show more content…
What is the American dream really? The American dream may consist of some freedom, a white picket fence, and possibly having the privilege of an early retirement. When the Americans are at their place of employment many employees believe that money grows on trees, which sounds really great. These theories come across the American workers, because of the great benefits that the employer may provide. Yes, the United States work field offers a lot more than some of the international areas and which they have a much better …show more content…
European workers are offered twenty to thirty days of paid vacation. I personally, work with the school district and for an employee like myself to receive that many paid vacation days I must work for my employer for over 10 years. Also, after working for the district for a year an employee is given two weeks of “sick leave” and eight hours of paid vacation. A great benefit, about this it’s that if not used, it may roll over and be added to the following years’ time. Therefore, if an employee were in need of extra maternity leave, may take advantage of the time they saved throughout the years past. Many female employees that become mothers tend to always make their family life extremely important to see their children
If anyone were to ask you, "do you enjoy working?" what would your response be? For example, in “America’s Bizarre Secret to Happiness: More Work” by Daily Mail it states “Europeans and American respondents were asked to identify if they were ‘very happy,’ ‘pretty happy’ or ‘not too happy’. This survey found that the Europeans were describing themselves as very happy …show more content…
What is the American dream really? The American dream may consist of some freedom, a white picket fence, and possibly having the privilege of an early retirement. When the Americans are at their place of employment many employees believe that money grows on trees, which sounds really great. These theories come across the American workers, because of the great benefits that the employer may provide. Yes, the United States work field offers a lot more than some of the international areas and which they have a much better …show more content…
European workers are offered twenty to thirty days of paid vacation. I personally, work with the school district and for an employee like myself to receive that many paid vacation days I must work for my employer for over 10 years. Also, after working for the district for a year an employee is given two weeks of “sick leave” and eight hours of paid vacation. A great benefit, about this it’s that if not used, it may roll over and be added to the following years’ time. Therefore, if an employee were in need of extra maternity leave, may take advantage of the time they saved throughout the years past. Many female employees that become mothers tend to always make their family life extremely important to see their children