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A rested worker is a productive worker, but a mix of a cult of busy-ness and fear that time off will lead to more work keep employees at their desk when they should be on the beach.
Americans deserve a break -- but many aren't taking one .
Three new studies say that most Americans decline to use all the vacation days they've earned on the job.
The surveys, conducted separately in the fall for travel giants Hotwire, Expedia and JetBlue, differed on the total unused days, but all showed that most Americans planned to leave vacation days on the table: from two to 11 on average in 2012.
Fifty-seven percent of respondents said as much in the JetBlue survey, with the other surveys showing similar results. In addition, the surveys all indicate that the number of vacation days being used has decreased significantly since last year. The Hotwire survey shows a 48 percent jump in the number of unused days from 2011 to 2012.
Those findings are no surprise to Worthington resident Melinda Pohl, who's familiar with unused vacation time.
Pohl, 31, a quality-assurance speciali
