take vacation? vacation. and like you said in the beginning, many workers don t have vacation, don t have paid sick days and so not having these actual federal policies creates an unspoken word across the board. there s a race to the bottom. countries say, you have to take 20 days, then everyone takes 20 days and no one s looking over their shoulder in the workplace who didn t take any time? that s right. i think there s a broader societal issue of, maybe it is the protestant work ethic on some level. there s definitely a sense that in this country we in other countries they work to live. we live to work on some level. and i see it infecting even when the president came out with this idea of grading colleges,
we re back on the eve of a long patriotic weekend. what is the reason americans don t take the vacation they have? you have to separate two questions. there s people that don t have vacation there s a very obvious reason for people, i don t get paid sick days, that s not an option for me. but the people who do, why don t they take it. in the words of a great american painter, it s uniquely american. i think part of it is that s a reference to george w. bush responding to a woman at a town hall where she said she was working three jobs. that s right. i think now in particular, and not having a sense of how this has changed over time. i think people are afraid. and i think that there is a real fear that, you know, i don t think they perceive they re donating to their employer. i think they are trying to assure the fact that they have some financial security, some job security. they re afraid that they re they re afraid if they take their full vacation,
million years of work annually to their employers by not takes the vacation package that is part of their package. they left an average of 8.1 days off unused. that finding tracks another survey from april which found the average american employee only takes half their paid time off. you probably already know that americans don t get much vacation compared to other people in other developed nations. we re the only advanced economy in the world that does not guarantee its workers paid vacation. in europe, people have a legal right to at least 20 paid days off per year. in america, meanwhile, 22% of workers reported not getting any paid vacation or paid time off, even sick days at all. as messed up as that is, and it is really messed up. the amazing thing to me is not that we don t get as much
going to impact my church. this wasn t just a republican governor that voted for this law, this had bipartisan support. jason carter voted for this legislation. that s a great point. thank you. thank you. coming up, why in the name of all that s holy don t americans take vacation. s you. guess what: your insurance company will only give you 37-thousand to replace it. depreciation they claim. how can my car depreciate before it s first oil change? you ask. maybe the better question is, why do you have that insurance company? with liberty mutual new car replacement, we ll replace the full value of your car. see car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance.
we re back on the eve of a long patriotic weekend. what is the reason americans don t take the vacation they have? you have to separate two questions. there s people that don t have vacation there s a very obvious reason for people, i don t get paid sick days, that s not an option for me. but the people who do, why don t they take it. in the words of a great american painter, it s uniquely american. i think part of it is that s a reference to george w. bush responding to a woman at a town hall where she said she was working three jobs. that s right. i think now in particular, and not having a sense of how this has changed over time. i think people are afraid. and i think that there is a real fear that, you know, i don t think they perceive they re donating to their employer. i think they are trying to assure the fact that they have some financial security, some job security. they re afraid that they re they re afraid if they take their full vacation,