Americans Are Taking More Time Off Work
The United States, unlike many other industrialized countries, has no statuary agreement on taking paid vacation. Meaning: There is no law telling employers the minimum number of days they need to give their employees off work - that are also paid for.
However, as Statista's Dyfed Loesche notes, Project:Time Off, which is sponsored by the U.S. Travel Association, has good news: After two decades of almost steady decline the average days of vacation have risen by 0.6 days year-over-year to 16.8 days in 2016.
You will find more statistics at Statista
"Despite this encouraging sign, taking time off continues to be a challenge in America’s always-on work culture," the authors of the latest report conclude. Still, in 2016, 662 million vacation days were left unused, four million days more than 2015.
Taking time off doesn't just profit the individual workers who is said to become more productive after being able to recharge their batteries. According to the project's estimates, "the jump in vacation usage from 16.2 to 16.8 days delivered a $37 billion impact to the U.S. economy."
Source : ZeroHedge
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Wow, a lot more breaks in the 80s and 90s
My goal is actually to work a lot more than i do today, but not as an employee but as an entrepreneur and investor. Currently using all my free time aside from my main work to improve myself and I find this very satisfying. Also writing about this here on steemit in my blog. Give it a read ;)
Tell that to my boss!
I think this tread will grow. More and more companies are adapting the policy that you lose your pto if you do t use it.
I am curious to see what that stat is for people that work over their "time off". I bet that is growing too
As more technology is implemented in the form of robotics and AI, the number of hours required to complete a job will continue to drop. Wonder if America can adopt the 35 hour work week like in France. Means better work life balance and more folks will stay employed.
I'm not surprised, as Scandinavian countries are being praised as good models for society (even though most of those praising Scandinavia have little insight into/don't support typical Scandinavian politics, demographics and traditions) and we have more time outside of employment.
Wether this should be considered necessarily good or whether the exact reasons for this can conclusively be linked to political policy or tradition is a matter of speculation however.
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The employers will be pisted off about your post hahahha, but we all need to relax in some point, if we are working all the time, we deteriorate very faster from inside out, so long life to the chill out!! xD
Does this statistic factor in whether or not the actual number of Paid Days Off increased or decreased during that period?
Maybe employers just stopped giving as many Vacation Days and they weren't available.