Who are these people with a month of paid leave saved up? What industry is so beneficent in this country? It's mind-boggling. I have generally assumed that my job was good overall, but one of the problems with it was that I didn't get enough leave. I have only taken one week of vacation over the past year in a meaningful sense. Do I have a month of paid leave saved up, or even 3 weeks? No, I do not. At the moment I have between 3 and -1 hours (depending on exactly when it's deducted and accrued, I'd have to check).
I accumulate about 3.5 hours of paid leave a week. That would add up to about 4 weeks of paid leave a year. However, in addition to a day or two of paid leave here and there for special occasions, I've taken several sick days because these days we have to take every little sniffle dead seriously, and there have been several lapses of childcare for one reason or another, and I can't honestly claim to be working full-time if I'm also trying to keep a kid entertained or working on her online classes. That has worked out to about 3 weeks over the past year. All my "leisure" time this year has gone to necessities.
While writing this I spent 10 minutes googling and apparently the money I make is merely average, for my experience and region. And the quality-of-life issues that I generally like about my job are, on reflection, mostly well in the past. So I really should look for another one. And once I finished reading the article, it acknowledged that a lot of people were in a position like mine, so I wouldn't accuse the writer of bullshit... just the editor.