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America's Vacation Culture Is Dying. Here's How to Revive It.
For some workers, the idea of taking time off just adds to their angst. But there is a way to make PTO less stressful.
Clear desks, full lives, can’t lose.
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Ah, summer. That time of year when Europeans take vacation, and Americans envy Europeans.
Americans get the world’s least amount of vacation time, in part because we’re one of the few countries without labor laws mandating some baseline of paid time off. And many of us don’t even use all the time we’re given. We also go the longest between vacations, according to an Expedia survey from June.