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04-04-2014, 04:02 AM
Americans Only Use Half of Their Paid Vacation
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Americans are leaving money on the table — in the form of unused vacation time.
Employees who receive paid time off use 51% of it, on average. That's according to a survey (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.glassdoor.com/press/wp-content/files_mf/ecsq114supplement.pdf%E2%80%9D) run by Harris Poll for the jobs website Glassdoor.
See also: Danish Company Offers Prizes to Residents Who Go on Vacation and Have *** (http://mashable.com/2014/03/31/denmark-vacation-procreation/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
The survey did find some good news: 85% of Americans who receive paid vacation or time off took at least some of it in the past 12 months, and 25% of survey respondents took all their eligible time off.
Taking time off doesn’t always mean vacation (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/%E2%80%9Dhttp://mashable.com/category/vacation/%E2%80%9D?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=), though. Eleven percent of employees said they used time off to interview for a**ther job, while 61% said they did at least some work while they were away from the ******. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/03/americans-use-half-of-paid-vacation/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Americans are leaving money on the table — in the form of unused vacation time.
Employees who receive paid time off use 51% of it, on average. That's according to a survey (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.glassdoor.com/press/wp-content/files_mf/ecsq114supplement.pdf%E2%80%9D) run by Harris Poll for the jobs website Glassdoor.
See also: Danish Company Offers Prizes to Residents Who Go on Vacation and Have *** (http://mashable.com/2014/03/31/denmark-vacation-procreation/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
The survey did find some good news: 85% of Americans who receive paid vacation or time off took at least some of it in the past 12 months, and 25% of survey respondents took all their eligible time off.
Taking time off doesn’t always mean vacation (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/%E2%80%9Dhttp://mashable.com/category/vacation/%E2%80%9D?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=), though. Eleven percent of employees said they used time off to interview for a**ther job, while 61% said they did at least some work while they were away from the ******. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/03/americans-use-half-of-paid-vacation/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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