[JustAGeek]

I'm a bit late to the party but whatever, just wanted to let you know that us Germans don't have 6 weeks federally mandated vacations, it's 24 days: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesurlaubsgesetz#Gesetzliche...

That's the minimum, most people I know have 28-30 days. On top of that you can get up to 5 days of paid educational leave.

The article as a whole is quite superficial, imho.

Not sure if those working in big companies like Deutsche Telekom or Daimler would agree to the claim that Germans don't have many meetings, for example... ;)

[danielh]

Actually, it's only 24 days if you have six work days in a week. For a 5-day-week, it's 20 days per year minimum.

[JustAGeek]

Ah, didn't know that, thanks. In fact, I haven't even known the 24 days before I looked it up in Wikipedia... :D