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Patch's Poll: Do You Use Your Vacation Days?
About 57% of working Americans had unused vacation time at the end of 2011 - does that sound familiar? Take our poll and add your thoughts in the comments.
We are coming up on Memorial Day weekend, which is the unofficial start to summer. Summer is the time when most folks plan and take their vacations from work. But a recent study shows that many American workers don't use most of their allocated time off.
"About 57% of working Americans had unused vacation time at the end of 2011, and most of them left an average of 11 days on the table - or nearly 70 percent of their allotted time off, according to a study performed by Harris Interactive for JetBlue."
Among reasons workers gave for forgoing vacation were:
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- Felt they could not take the time
- Could not afford to travel
- Were worried about taking time off in an unstable job market.
How about you? Do you get paid vacation? Do you use it? Why or why not?
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