{"id":3298,"date":"2015-08-18T19:57:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T02:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2015-08-18T19:57:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T02:57:45","slug":"skipping-vacation-does-not-get-you-ahead-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/skipping-vacation-does-not-get-you-ahead-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Skipping Vacation Does Not Get you Ahead at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Aug 18, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Did you skip vacation this summer? Perhaps you should make an effort to slide it in this fall before you lose your time. Why? It&#8217;s good for your career, per this quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/18\/opinion\/what-your-vacation-says-about-you.html?action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=opinion-c-col-right-region&amp;region=opinion-c-col-right-region&amp;WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region\">an article in the New York Times<\/a> today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whether people take a vacation at all says a bit about career success, but the relationship is the opposite from what one might imagine. According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projecttimeoff.com\/news\/press-releases\/working-free-us-workforce-forfeits-524-billion-time-benefits-annually\">study by Project: Time Off<\/a>, a research-driven initiative from the U.S. Travel Association, American workers in 2013 forfeited 169 million days of paid time off, worth $52.4 billion. What was the career benefit? Negative, according to the study.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"389\" data-total-count=\"3079\">Those who left between 11 and 15 days unused were 6.5 percent less likely to receive a raise or bonus than those who used all their vacation days. We don\u2019t know if this is because the vacation-less employees were overstressed, or because incompetent employees who couldn\u2019t get their work done skipped vacation. But this does indicate that vacation takers are not paying a career price.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-para-count=\"389\" data-total-count=\"3079\">So rethink your noble plans to work right through vacation periods. Instead, take those hours you have earned, you deserve it!<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"389\" data-total-count=\"3079\">Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 18, 2015 Did you skip vacation this summer? Perhaps you should make an effort to slide it in this fall before you lose your time. Why? It&#8217;s good for your career, per this quote from an article in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/skipping-vacation-does-not-get-you-ahead-at-work\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}