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996.Leave
996.Leave is an open-source, community-maintained guide that helps tech workers compare work conditions, salaries, cost of living, and legal protections across different countries to inform international relocation decisions. The project stores each country's information as a Markdown file, which is rendered into a pre-built HTML page through static site generation, making the content fast to load and simple to host.
The guide provides structured comparisons across a wide range of factors that matter to tech professionals considering a move abroad. These include annual leave entitlements, tax systems and social contributions, housing costs and affordability, healthcare systems, pension schemes, and employment protections. The project also covers practical relocation support such as visa requirements, language barriers, interview practices, and recruitment resources, including direct contacts for specific companies and job boards in various countries.
Content is managed entirely through GitHub, with each country guide contributed and maintained via pull requests and issues. The project provides templates for creating new guides and encourages ongoing updates to keep information accurate. This collaborative approach allows the community to build and refine a living database of work-life comparisons for tech workers exploring opportunities overseas.
Features
- Work-Life Comparison Guides - Provides an open-source guide comparing work conditions, salaries, and living costs across countries for tech workers.
- Country Work Culture Guides - Provides community-maintained documents sharing local work culture, benefits, and job resources for each country.
- Interview Style Comparators - Compare interview styles and visa sponsorship requirements for foreign tech workers.
- Job Search and Recruitment - Provides recruitment contacts, job boards, and referral channels for tech positions in specific countries.
- Work Life Balance - Provides structured data comparing annual leave, work hours, and remote work policies across multiple nations.
- Cost of Living Assessors - Estimates typical costs for rent, food, transport, and housing to gauge affordability relative to local salaries.
- Cost of Living Comparators - Provides user-contributed cost estimates for housing, food, and transport to evaluate affordability in different countries.
- Housing Cost Comparators - Provides structured comparisons of property purchase costs for foreigners and residents across countries.
- Legal Protection Comparators - Compare legal recourse and employer conduct during layoffs between countries to highlight worker rights.
- Healthcare System Comparators - Compare mandatory health insurance costs, coverage scope, and access procedures to assess medical support.
- Relocation Assistance - Provides practical information on visa requirements, interview processes, and recruitment contacts for moving abroad.
- Relocation Decision Guides - Provides structured comparisons of visa requirements, legal protections, and living costs for relocation decisions.
- Salary Structure Comparators - Compares gross and net income, including bonuses and tax breaks, across countries to assess earning potential.
- Tax and Benefit Comparators - Compares tax rates, pension, medical insurance, and housing fund contributions between countries.
- Tax and Social Contribution Comparators - Compares income tax, pension, medical insurance, and housing fund rates across countries for financial planning.
- Tax Burden Comparators - Compares personal income tax, social insurance, and housing fund rates across countries to show net income differences.
- Personal Income Tax Calculators - Calculates income tax and social contributions based on local rates to show take-home pay.
- Tax System Comparators - Compares income tax brackets and rates across countries to understand take-home pay after deductions.
- Vacation Entitlement Comparators - Compares annual leave, public holidays, and sick leave policies across countries to highlight time-off benefits.
- Vacation Policy Comparators - Compares annual leave, public holidays, and other leave entitlements between China and Singapore.
- Visa Requirement Guides - Summarizes visa types, eligibility criteria, and sponsorship needs for working in specific countries.
- Work Condition Comparators - Compares working hours, leave policies, and remote work options across countries to evaluate job quality.
- Work Culture Guides - Creates and maintains guides documenting local work culture, living information, and employment practices for specific countries.
- Work Hour and Leave Policy Comparators - Contrasts typical working hours, overtime culture, and annual leave entitlements between countries.
- Work-Life Balance Comparators - Compares typical working hours and overtime culture between China and Singapore to highlight differences in work intensity.
- Markdown-Based Content Authoring - Stores each country guide as a plain Markdown file in a directory structure, enabling easy editing and version control.
- Static Site Generation - Generates all country guide pages as pre-built HTML files at build time for fast loading and simple hosting.
- Living - Provides benchmarks for housing, food, and transport expenses to help budget for international relocation.
- Visa and Work Permit Guides - Explains how employers sponsor work visas and what steps are needed to legally work abroad.
- Country-Specific Recruitment Details - Access direct contacts and links to company recruiters and local job boards for tech positions in a target country.
- Language Barrier Comparators - Compares English proficiency requirements in workplaces and daily life across countries.
- Pension System Comparators - Compares multi-pillar pension schemes across countries to evaluate retirement security.
- Social Benefits Summaries - Summarizes mandatory employer contributions for pensions, healthcare, and housing subsidies per country.
- Personal Income Tax Calculators - Calculates income tax, social security, and mandatory contributions to understand net income and social benefits.
- Country Guide Updates - Edit and improve an existing country document to keep its information accurate and up to date.
- Country Culture Guides - Describes lifestyle and social environment to help tech workers evaluate a country's fit.
- Automated Interview Platforms - Reviews common interview formats including algorithm tests and how companies sponsor work visas.
- Technical Interview Guides - Reviews common interview stages, technical assessments, and soft skill evaluations used by local employers.
- Career Resources - Collection of resources and experiences for developers seeking to leave 996 culture.
