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Maybe it's theStress of the current socio-political climate, or maybe it's the need to take aDetox social media given the rise of technical dependencyBut, whatever the reason, the Americans took more days of vacation in 2017 than in 2016. How many more? A half-half-day.

Project: leave time, a group affiliated with the American Travel Association, recently released conclusions about US employees and the way they spend their free time. Between December 4th and 23rd, 2018, they conducted online talks with 4,349 American workers who work more than 35 hours a week and receive a paid time of their employer.

They found that 52% of Americans arealways Do not use every vacation day they earn, which means that 705 million days of 705 million days are not used in 2017 overall. According to the data, these unused days could have generated 1.9 million jobs and generated $ 255 billion for Americans. Instead, they went to waste.

The 17.2 days of an average American holiday of 2017 mark the highest level for the use of the American holidays since 2010, when it reached 17.5 days, but it is still far from 20.3 days that the average American has taken between 1978 and 2000.

What is worse is that, of these 17.2 days, only an average of 8 have actually passed to travel. Nearly a quarter of Americans do not travel at all, even if the majority (84%) stated that the use of their holidays to see the world was important for them.

The meaning of this can not be underestimated, since those who use most of their free time to travel have declared that they felt 30% happier with the way they spent their vacation days than those who do not have to travel at all. Those who used their vacation days to travel also stated to be much more satisfied with their job, business, personal relationships and physical health and well-being.

So, if the Americans want to travel, have time to do it and know that it will make them happier, why do not they do it?

Some of the travel barriers reported by Americans include money, children, domestic animals and security concerns. But people who left most of the unused holiday days (61%) did so because they were worried, it would make them seem replaceable at work.

It may be the secret of the rise of "travalse" - a nascent trend that is particularly popular among the millennia, which involves maintaining their regular work schedule during travel, allowing them to experience experience from another country without having to sacrifice at any time.

Even if you are a type of old-fashioned employee and clock / clock, you should not be worried that taking time to see that the world will compromise your work.

The study revealed that there is a disconnection between how employees and managers agitated from holiday time: 62% of employees said that their company is discouraged, sends mixed messages or say nothing about the time of Holidays, and 54% of 54% think their business does not even want them. Talking about their holidays with colleagues when they come back. But 70% of managers said that employees use all their time off and 64% said they should feel free to talk about the trip to their return.

Nearly half of the managers said that when they refuse proposed holiday days, it's because they did not have enough notice. If you want to amplify the amount of trips you make this year, consider planning in advance. After all, the study also found that those who planned their vacation well in advance were 10% more likely to use every day. And if you wantFollowing of these days, just masterOur secret turn to score more holiday time at work.

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