The Case Of The Disappearing Vacation Pleasantville NJ

Are you ready to take your annual vacation -- or are you among the many who are scared they'll learn to live without you if you're gone for a week or two? Here are seven things you can do to make your vacation relaxing while keeping your job security intact.

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by Ramon Greenwood

This is the time for daydreaming about your annual vacation. Sounds enticing.

But when it comes to actually taking time off, a growing number of us become downright ambivalent. ('Paranoid' may be more accurate.) Concerns about job security creep in. If the boss can get along without me for two weeks will he decide I¹m not needed? What will happen to my projects when I am gone? Will my colleagues undermine me? And there are large numbers of us who are addicted to work. They'd rather work than be on vacation.

The result is that almost one-third of us don't take all the vacation days we have earned, according to Expedia.com, the online travel agency. Some 14 percent do not take any vacation time at all.

In addition, there's an army of men and women who are so hooked on their work that they can't leave it behind. When they are supposed to be on vacation they are not really on vacation. They stay connected to their work via the umbilical cord of technology. Some 32 percent check their voice mail or e-mail every day away from the job. It is the rare bird indeed who can be away from the office for two weeks without checking in two or three times "just to see how things are going." Many employers are enablers of this kind of behavior as they strive to get more work for the same money.

Instead of feeling refreshed by time away from work, hordes of us dread coming back. We know the e-mails have piled up, the to-do list has grown and there is the gen...

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