U.S. Employers Are Making Americans’ No-Vacation Nation Problem Worse
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Travel brands trying to coax U.S. employees out of their offices may be preaching to the choir. Most employees probably don't resent the idea of time away from the office and would likely take vacation days if they felt their bosses truly encouraged it. It's U.S. employers who need to hear from travel brands even more as they set the standard for vacation policies and their promotion.
U.S. employees let some 429 million vacation days go unused each year and their bosses shoulder much of the blame for not talking about vacation in the workplace, according to a new report from U.S. Travel Association.
The report by U.S. Travel argues that although 80% of managers and human resource leaders believe vacation time is important and 67% feel vacations make employees more productive, over two thirds (67%) of U.S. employees say they've heard either either nothing, negative, or mixed messages from their bosses about taking time off. U.S. Travel's Project: Time Off that surveyed U.S. employees and employers on their vacation time and looks at why Americans are stuck in a cycle of forgoing their vacation time and taking less time off than years past.
