Relaxation Deprivation
Posted Friday, July 25, 2008
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When was the last time you watched the clouds pass by or sat under the stars and simply drank in the night? When was the last time you did absolutely nothing?
Under pressure to succeed and stay competitive – how do we just STOP and smell the roses? American workers get about 14 days of vacation a year and a third of us don’t use all of it. And if we do, we often can’t leave work behind completely... Relaxation Deprivation - on The Sound of Ideas®.
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Mental Health, Community/Human Interest
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Ellen Galinsky, President and Co-Founder of Families and Work InstituteJim Smith, The Executive Happiness Coach
Additional Information
47.5 million Americans are Vacation Deprived, Expedia.com – 2008 International Vacation Deprivation™ Survey ResultsOverwork in America, When the Way We Work Becomes Too Much, Report by the Families and Work Institute
Please Don't Make Me Go on Vacation, By Stephanie Rosenbloom, The New York Times
Which Side of the Atlantic Is Crazy? By Roland Jones, MSNBC
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