The overall score was determined by factors including minimum wage, sick leave, maternity leave, healthcare availability, public happiness, average working hours, and LGBTQ+ inclusivity.
I honestly find that hard to believe, given Germany for example has over a year of paid maternity leave, same free healthcare, better public transport etc etc.
Has anyone come across the study? I can’t find any references anywhere except for articles on Newshub and Stuff. I can’t even narrow down which employment company it might be that ran the study, but if it’s this one then it doesn’t seem to be making a big deal of any of this on its press coverage page.
I don’t think that’s the right Remote. Searching for the name of the Remote CRO leads to a LinkedIn page that lists him as working for this Remote: https://remote.com
But this is smelling more like an ad for the company…
Thanks. That looks like the right company but it’s still really hard to navigate their website and I can’t find any trace of info about this report.
I wonder if there’s a list of countries out there which ranks by media-most-susceptible-to-republishing-press-releases-which-place-their-country-at-favourable-position-in-rankings.
Probably not because we’d have seen it on Newshub by now.
Haha yeah this was pretty much my conclusion too.
a high rate of sick pay (80 percent)
What does that mean? Is this referring to ACC paying 80% of salary?
The Australia one says:
sickness leave is paid at 100 percent of your salary.
Are these talking about the same thing? I would think normal sick leave is paid at 100% of your salary so I’m curious where the 80% figure comes from.
Sick leave yes, but not ACC ie long term sickness leave.
Yeah but ACC isn’t even long term sickness leave. That would be a WINZ benefit e.g. Supported Living Payment.
ACC is specifically only for accidents. I can find an Australian equivalent to the WINZ support which works pretty much the same, but I can’t find any info about salary replacement for what I think is the ACC equivalent, National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Anyway, I think we’ve decided there’s no real study behind this “article”, it’s just a company trying to be talked about. There doesn’t actually seem to be a study that we can read, and based on some of the other articles on their site (e.g. this similar one on work-life balance by US state) it’s not very scientific. There’s no source for the data they’ve used, and their choices of what criteria to use are pretty arbitrary.
Yeah, I can’t figure it out either. I wonder if they got an intern to do a quick google on each country.
I heard this on the radio while driving home after working 0500-1930. What a load of shit
Whilst your particular experience may not be what the study found, it does not in fact invalidate the study.
We do have a good work life balance here but there’s no way it’s the best in the world.
