on providing paid time off to workers.
Elexandra is entitled to 30 paid days off in Germany and was surprised to find it's "extremely easy" to request time off. By the time she returned, she found "easing back into work was fairly easy. Almost all of the employees I work with were notified so my workload was paused until I returned."moved to Malmo, Sweden
She says her European coworkers and clients have a "general understanding that in the summertime, business will be slower and then pick back up in the autumn." During the summer, she says, "more than half of the email replies I receive are auto-replies stating that the person is on vacation until mid-July or August."
It's helpful that Elexandra can view her PTO as a guarantee she's entitled to, rather than a perk she has to prove herself worthy of.