July 23, 2004 6:06 PM

It's late July, do you know where your vacation is?
Posted by Colin Moorat 6:06 PM

Summer is that season that always seems to rush by at a sprinters pace.  Yes, it is already late July and many American workers have not planned, let alone taken any vacation time.  We all know those folks who say, "I'm too busy at work to take any vacation."  I was reading an article on MSN Careers and learned the startling fact that each year American employees give back more than $21 billion dollars in unused vacation days to their employers. What's wrong with this picture!

Remember what it was like to be in school, when you had every summer off and got to spend your days playing and goofing off for week after week? Wouldn't it be great to be able to do that as an adult? Sadly, we Americans not only don't use our summers for rest and relaxation, we hardly use any vacation time at all. According to an Expedia.com survey, 63 percent of Americans work more than 40 hours per week and we hand back more than $21 billion dollars in unused vacation days to employers each year.

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