Or any other place for that matter.

Just read this in the USA Today travel section.

According to two just-released surveys….the Hotwire.com discount travel site sent out findings from its “American Travel Behavior Survey” that found the average U.S. employee leaves 6.2 days of paid vacation days unused at year’s end. The survey of more than 2,000 adults was conducted online by Harris Interactive. And another online survey, conducted for the JetBlue airline in late September and reported by Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper, found that about 57% of about 1,100 workers polled don’t use all vac days. That survey says the average days left on the table are a whopping 11 and that almost a third of employees are “too afraid to ask for vacation” in a time of high unemployment and job insecurity, according to theDaily Mail.
In a society where people are stressed and over committed on time vacation is an important thing. I know I dont take as much as I might. We do a full week once a year, at least, but I am hesitant to do more. I do a great job of finding time but as my wife points out, “you dont take days off, you take hours off.” Well, at least I do that!

What do you do and what are you doing to make sure your people take time? If they burn out they are of no use to you.

So what about you, readers?

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