A Harvard Medical School study puts America at the top of the list of depressed (or otherwise mentally disordered) countries. Polls show that Americans are really only happy when they're away from work.
• Americans put in more hours at work than any other nation, with nine more weeks of labor per year than their working counterparts in Western Europe, who get at least 20 paid days of vacation each year.
• Most Western European countries give workers six weeks of vacation. Finland tops the list with an added 14 paid national holidays, bringing personal time to about nine weeks a year.
• Canada and Japan are near the bottom of that list, with a legal minimum of ten vacation days.
• The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not have a mandatory minimum of vacation time.
