You need research this topic a little bit more. We Americans are workaholics. We don’t even use the vacation time we have available. I work in HR and the statistics are frightening in regards to how little time we actually take off work compared to other countries.

I don’t think it’s a question of companies offering more vacation time, it’s an issue of workers actually taking off. Most people I know have their laptop and Blackberry wherever they go, so people never really "leave the office" when the office goes with them.

It would be an individual company decision to offer how ever many vacation days they choose to offer, however most companies that I know of aren’t offering more than 4 – 5 weeks. Some union companies probably offer 6+, but that’s if you’ve been employed with them for many years and today’s workers aren’t staying at jobs for 30 years like they used to. Around 6 – 8 years is average to stay at a job, so most people won’t earn more than 4 weeks vacation in that time frame.

I don’t really know how you would be able to change the amount of vacation we get. My boyfriend is from Canada and they seem to get a lot more national holidays than we do. He even said he thought it was illegal for any place to be open on Easter! So national holidays are one way that other countries get more vacation time. Some of it is cultural – i’ve heard that some places in europe have a break in the afternoon for naps. Crazy! We definitely work more than other countries. Here in the US I think it would have to start at the company level though….good luck!