Pursuits
Americans Are Taking More Paid Vacation Days
But they're still too scared to take all they're offered
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Americans are notoriously bad at taking what little paid time off they get from their jobs. But there is one way to get people to take more paid vacation: Give them more of it.
As the economy recovers, companies are offering employees better benefits of all sorts, including more vacation days. Last year, full-time workers who get paid time off from their jobs earned, on average, 22.6 paid vacation days, up .7 days from the year before, according to an annual survey by Project: Time Off, a travel industry-funded initiative to get more people to take vacation.