{"id":10620,"date":"2007-01-04T01:20:36","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T22:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/04\/working-hard\/"},"modified":"2007-01-04T01:20:36","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T22:20:36","slug":"working-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/04\/working-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Working hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>This sounds wrong, not in terms of statistics, of which I am not aware, but in terms of people&#8217;s behavior:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here in the U.S. the annual average is a measly 13 days (Compared to Italy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 42 and France\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 37): a pittance if you include time-off needed for weddings, complicated mid-week errands, parole violations and the odd humdinger of a hangover. Yet somehow more than 1\/3rd of Americans don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use all their vacation each year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Quoted from <a title=\"Scott Berkun blog: When should you take a vacation? A strategy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scottberkun.com\/blog\/?p=514\">Scott Berkun&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have any statistics handy about the average annual vacations in Cyprus, but my estimation is that it&#8217;s somewhere around 20 days.  And I&#8217;d say about 2\/3rds take all their vacation days and then some more with sick leaves, unnoticed missed days, emergencies, and stuff like that.  And there are, of course, <a title=\"Wikipedia page for Holidays in Cyprus\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holidays_in_Cyprus\">15 public holidays<\/a> or so every year.<\/p>\n<p>I love this country!<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>This sounds wrong, not in terms of statistics, of which I am not aware, but in terms of people&#8217;s behavior: Here in the U.S. the annual average is a measly 13 days (Compared to Italy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 42 and France\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 37): a pittance if you include time-off needed for weddings, complicated mid-week errands, parole violations and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/04\/working-hard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Working hard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26319,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/08\/08\/documentation-just-before-vacation\/","url_meta":{"origin":10620,"position":0},"title":"Documentation just before vacation","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 8, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"With August, a month when so many people take their annual leave, upon us, CommitStrip nails it once again:","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"documentation before vacation","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/documentation-before-vacation-500x468.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":24938,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/06\/100-social-media-facts-and-statistics-for-2015\/","url_meta":{"origin":10620,"position":1},"title":"100 Social Media Facts and Statistics for 2015","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in 2013 I linked to some (not so) surprising facts about social media. \u00a0Two years is a lot of time and a lot of things has changed since. \u00a0So here comes 100 social media facts and statistics for 2015. \u00a0These spread from general statistics to service-specific ones, including Facebook,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Social-Media-Facts-Statistics","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Social-Media-Facts-Statistics-500x213.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":19148,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/09\/2013-in-blogging-annual-report\/","url_meta":{"origin":10620,"position":2},"title":"2013 in Blogging &#8211; Annual report","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 9, 2014","format":"link","excerpt":"2013 in Blogging - Annual report The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. 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