SUMMER IN AMERICA: Take Your Vacation
Summer is halfway over and your company wishes you’d take a vacation already. Fewer workers have claimed time off.
A survey of HR departments showed vacation requests are only half of what they were last summer. Blame the virus and travel restrictions. One executive lamented, (quote) “The last few months, it’s been hard for people to take the time off because they can’t go anywhere.”
If we don’t take a summer break, business managers see trouble on the horizon. There’s a high potential for employee burnout. Also, there could be a crunch in December where everybody wants to take their vacation days.
Senator Martha McSally of Arizona introduceda bill to encourage Americans to travel by basically paying people to vacation. Families of four could reduce their tax bill by $9,000 by traveling this year. The government would effectively pay for your vacation expenses including hotel, transportation and meals.