What is it with Americans and work?

We work, on average, 1,836 hours a year, more than just about anyone else in the industrialized world, and we take less vacation. 42% of working Americans don’t take any vacation at all and, of those who do, 61% report that they were working when they should have been playing!¹

Paid time off makes up, on average, 7% of an American workers’ compensation package but most workers don’t collect all that they are entitled to. In fact, according to Fortune magazine, the average American worker leaves about five paid days off per year unclaimed. If the company isn’t buying back that unpaid leave, then workers who work on days when they should be off are, in fact, paying their employers for the privilege of working on those days.²

For all kinds of reasons, so…