This is a sad state of affairs
reported in this latest survey revealing that Stressed Americans Leave 460 Million Vacation Days Unused. It used to be that the Japanese were the workaholics but now they seem to have been replaced by Americans. By international comparison the amount of vacation days in the U.S. is already very low and it seems many people don’t even take those in full.
It’s quite a loss to the travel industry as a whole when we imagine that at least a certain percentage of these people would spend their days away from home. Not a statistic of which we should be proud!
That is a staggering number of vacation days not to take. Comparing this with Tim Ferris’s 4 Hour Work Week shows us that some Americans have managed to bring free time, purposeful leisure and travel into their lives.
There are certainly no simple solutions to ever longer working hours and each of us have to find our own work/life balance.