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Many Americans are involuntary workaholics,
results of a recent survey suggest. More than 30%
of workers gobble their lunch while they work and nearly 20% said they
are too overworked to use their annual vacation time -- even though they
already have fewer vacation days than workers in other industrialized
nations.
Regular vacations are
preventive medicine, they cut down on stress-related
illness and save health care dollars.
17%
of the workers surveyed reported a loss of sleep
because of work and 21% said
they have missed family events because of
their job.
The pressure to overwork, however, may not be solely
self-inflicted, the survey findings suggest. Seventeen percent of the
respondents report that their jobs have management
policies that make
it hard for them to take time off from their job or leave work
in the case of an emergency. Nearly 20% think it necessary to go to work
even when they are sick or injured.
Oxford Health Plans Survey
NEW YORK, NY Feb 22, 2001
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