Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Fear of being forgotten forces managers to forego vacations
Staff who are not managers tend to make full use of their vacation time each year, with executives and middle managers much less likely to do so, a new U.S study has suggested.
The workplace vacation survey of more than 500 HR professionals and just under 600 employees by the Society for Human Resource Management and CareerJournal.com has found that employees in a job for two years or less were more likely to use sick or personal days as vacation days, compared with employees employed for 16 or more years.
According to more than two thirds of HR professionals polled, executive-level employees with one year or fewer under their belts received more than two weeks of paid vacation/paid time off per year, compared with 50 per cent of middle management and 35 per cent of non-management employees.
New hires in non-management level were provided with two weeks per year of paid vacation/paid time off, according to 42 per cent of HR professionals.
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