[moksly]

> To an extent isn’t this because these types of benefits aren’t affordable? The pension, extra vacation, etc wouldn’t be possible without the tax revenue raised from your friends who are working more hours.

Not really. My terms are actually widely available in a lot of private sector jobs, just not in software development. If I was a HR consultant in a private company, I would have basically the same rights as I do now.

It’s because the rights come from unions, and being in the public sector as a software development puts you on the same category of unionisation that any other white collar public worker. So my rights are the same as anyone else in the administration.

Software development in the private sector never really unionised in Denmark. Partly. Because there was never really a need as there were always more jobs than developers.

There are a few private companies that try to attract developers with benefits, but the vast majority of them do it with money.