As a nation, we could do a better job at taking time off.
About half of full-time workers recently surveyed by the U.S. Travel Association didn’t take all the paid vacation days they earned last year.
More than 700 million vacation days went unused, and we forfeited about 200 million of those days — when vacation benefits didn’t roll over. On average, American workers took almost six fewer vacation days than we earned.
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