It's not common for companies to have many breaks at all in the US — paid time off is a rare luxury for many workers here. The country's culture is riddled with Protestant views on work and its virtue, which when combined with our rampant individualism and disdain for public works leads to The Hustle being an idolized state.

It has its upsides and downsides. Upsides include the country generally being pretty darn industrious and a hotbed for entrepreneurship, and having good socioeconomic mobility prospects for those who (A) don't start out genuinely poor, and (B) are willing to be obsessive about work. Downsides include burnout, dispassionate employees, and an icky tendency to associate poverty with immorality and wealth with morality. I personally believe we could definitely stand to move a little further in the European direction when it comes to labor culture and laws here in the USA.