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＜Data Joke＞Does Japanese work more days than others?

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For some reasons, I have Singapore public holiday when I'm out from Singapore for business trips. Then I plan my business trip when the destination country does not have public holiday. In the end, I miss many public holidays in a year. I take less off. I assume people who often have overseas business trip have similar issue.(No?). Of course, I fully enjoyed Singapore public holidays for recent 2 years but I missed Chinese New Year due to the very first business trip in 2 years…(Sad).

I think there is GW (Golden week, which is the long holiday in Japan) soon (I'm jealous). If you take 2 leaves during the week, that would be 10 days continuous holiday (I'm jealous). We don't have longer holiday like CNY in China, Tet holiday in Vietnam, GW in Japan. I want it (from the bottom of my heart.). Well I thought we don't need it during COVID regulation but it would be great if we can have it now…

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Reference : expedia Japan(2022), https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000235.000003373.html

Japan is famous for its less consumption of leave as a negative aspect of working environment. So I wanted to find something more positive with similar figures. Now my hypothesis is Japan has good number of off if you include number of public holidays. The chart above is the simulation on how many days off people in each area take. Blue part refers to expedia(2022) report which shows average number of leave consumed in each area. Red part is number of public holiday. Figures in Japan does not include some non working days like year end holiday. In Japan we have few days which is not public holiday but most of the company set as non working day.

It is of course, still not comparable to to 2, Germany and France but the gap between 3rd, Italy is 5 days and maybe we can assume that practically Italy and Japan are almost the same! Well, it might not be the case if other areas also have similar practice that there are few non working days aside by public holidays.

By the way, the expedia report show something interesting. There are some areas where average consumed leave is more that provided leave like Thailand. I'm wondering how the raw data look like. It would be fun if people just get it regardless of provided days Lol (of course not).

*This story uses real data but whole story is fiction.

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    Jun Hasegawa

    I have been stationed in Singapore for many years, and am currently working in Tokyo
    I use data in my writing, but it is mainly jokes.
    Just want to use data not only for logical view but for some fun!

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