In a law of unintended consequences story, it is forbidden in Japan to pay leave out when you separate from a job, to avoid monetarily incentivizing salarymen to not take it during career. So instead they just lose all the value when retiring (and/or separating earlier).
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Like all cultures, the culture that is salarymanhood changes over time. One of the scandalized comments regarding millennials in Japan (generally said about “grass-eating men” not millennials but with similar social function) is that they take most of their leave, like savages.
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(Grass eating as compared to meat eating, which was originally mostly a comment regarding this generation not being chainsmoking order-following salarymen elite and now mostly gets used to identify what in the US popular culture would be called beta males. Memetic evolution.)
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At my company I require kacho to take three consecutive days of leave once a year and bucho to take five. The first several years I had to chase people, & everyone took theirs in Q3-Q4 under duress. That’s all it took. Now people use most of their days without any input from me.
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Patrick, there are better problems in the world to worry about.
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My dad, a college professor in the U.S., retired with 224 days of PTO. He took more than one consecutive day only once: 55 days for heart surgery in 1987. Of course he also got most of May and August off every year. (With summer school in June and July)
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