What would have been really informative is to know how many of those aveerage vacation/sick days were mandated by the country in question, and how many weren't.<p>For example, I thought the various governments in Europe got cranky if you didn't take certain amount of time off. But in the US there is no minimum paid days off at all. Don't know what the story is in Mexico, for example, one of the cited countries with a lower vacation time policy that the US average of 10 vacation days.