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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whenever I read stuff like this I am SO SO grateful I had my kids while I was living in the UK. I took 7 months maternity leave followed by my husband taking 2 months paternity leave for #1 and then I took 10 months for #2. I wasn't paid for all of it but my job was guaranteed for a year. There are so many great things about living here in the US but maternity policy is not one of them! Good luck, OP, I hope your bosses are sympathetic. [/quote]

Can you explain what your employer did with your work while you were out? Are UK companies more likely to have staffing models where their employees having breathing room to absorb the additional work versus here we try to pile as much on our employees that we can? Are there more folks willing to work in these jobs temporarily and just keep rotating companies?

I've always been curious as to how this truly works. What I've previously read indicates that companies just hire temps. I'm just trying to wrap my head around the workforce in every other country includes mass amounts of temps.

Maybe the flexibility comes from statutory requirements in many countries regarding work hours and benefits. Our culture really seems to be based on greed. I've worked for multiple companies and have never worked somewhere where every day employees days were filled with work.

TIA![/quote]

Not the PP but I worked at a US based company with UK based colleagues (who were bound by the employment laws of the UK - i.e. guaranteed job for one year) and I had to take on her work load on top of my own. [/quote]

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