| When is your next vacation? Or better yet: when is | | | | take the fewest vacations. The reasons are many, |
| the last time you took a vacation? If you're like 26 | | | | ranging from a lack of paid vacations to an overall |
| percent of Americans, you aren't planning to take | | | | profit-driven mentality: after all, it's important to work |
| one this year; and if you're like over 50 percent of | | | | hard and be 'available' when the boss needs someone |
| Americans, you'll barely make an effort. Only if you're | | | | to take on the next big project. Moreover, people |
| in the lucky 14% will you take a vacation for two or | | | | feel it's too much extra work to take a vacation, |
| more weeks this year. | | | | because they have to get ahead of their workload in |
| What are the reasons for this lack of leisure in the | | | | order to leave, then catch up upon their return. And |
| US? Well, 'lack of leisure' isn't exactly accurate: | | | | while the 'market' for free time in the US has long |
| Americans spend more money on 'leisure' than | | | | been limited, one has to ask: have we really reached |
| anyone else in the world - yet surprisingly, they still | | | | a point where it's too stressful to relax? |