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
Just like proper daily sleep, there is a longer cycle that generally benefits from a few weeks of down time. Unfortunately, the economic pressures most people are under severely limit their ability to do that. However, if it is at all possible for you to take a vacation I would strongly encourage you to do so.
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