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- Author
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Dickey, Jack
- Subjects
EMPLOYEE vacations ,LABOR productivity ,SUMMER vacations ,EMPLOYEES ,SMARTPHONES & society ,VACATIONS -- Social aspects ,TECHNOLOGY & society ,LEAVE of absence ,SOCIAL history ,HISTORY - Abstract
The article discusses the efforts to reestablish the importance of vacations for American workers as of 2015, and it mentions how employees in the U.S. are using less vacation time than similar workers did back in the 1980s and 1990s. The concept of overwork is mentioned, along with employee fringe benefits and labor productivity in America. The erosion of the quality of vacation time is examined, as well as the impacts of technology and smartphones on workers and vacations.
- Published
- 2015