Work-life balance: Germany ranks fourth in Europe

Created: 07/05/2022 14:21

By: Carina Blumenroth

The salary or the health system - both play a role when it comes to work-life balance.

How does Germany fare there?

At the beginning of the corona pandemic, many people inevitably had to grapple with how to reorganize work and life.

A lot has merged and had to be separated again - for example, many employees had to work from

.

European company

conducted a study examining

.

The investigation was published in March 2022.

Germany is ranked fourth in a work-life balance ranking in the remote ranking.

European countries were examined.

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Work-life balance: Germany is fourth in Europe

The company

used various factors to assess how well work and private life can be

reconciled

The following factors played a role in the calculation:

• Statutory

  annual leave

• Statutory

  minimum sick pay

  (as a percentage)

• Paid maternity leave

  (percentage and weeks)

• minimum wage

• healthcare system

• Happiness index (scale up to ten)

With this background,

then created an index in which the countries could achieve a maximum of 100 points in total.

Full points were awarded when best performances were achieved in the specific category.

Luxembourg took first place with an index of 83.47.

with 73.69

.

• 10th place:

  Denmark with an index of 68.74

• 9th place:

  Italy with an index of 68.88

• 8th place:

  Iceland with an index of 70.17

• 7th place:

  Slovenia with an index of 70.4

• 6th place:

  Poland with an index of 70.48

• 5th place:

  France with an index of 71.36

• 4th place:

  Germany with an index of 73.69

• 3rd place:

  Norway with an index of 74.8

• 2nd place:

  Spain with an index of 75.39

• 1st place:

  Luxembourg with an index of 83.47

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With 30 statutory

in this ranking

.

Iceland has the most vacation days for employees, with 38 vacation days.

Paid maternity leave also looks passable – new mothers in Germany get 14 fully paid weeks.

If you look at the Happiness Index alone, Germany comes in 5th place in this

ranking. In a global comparison of the 2021 Happiness Index, Germany comes in 13th place.

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