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U.S. workers are among the in the world for not taking all their vacation days. Their bosses say they are among the best in the world for working their holidays. Either , Americans will give up $34.3 billion in paid vacation in 2012, which is the equivalent of 226 million days . These figures come from an annual conducted by Harris Interactive for Expedia. They questioned 7,083 in 20 countries in North America, Europe, Asia, South America and Australia. The top for Americans not using up their holidays was not being able to a holiday (34%). This was followed by lack of planning (15%), the statement "work is my life" (15%) and feeling about asking the boss for time off.

Workers in other countries don’t to have a problem taking vacations. French workers get an 30 vacation days a year and generally use them all. In the UK, employees get 25 days and pretty take all of them. Asia is the only where workers receive and fewer holidays than Americans. The Japanese worker only gets 11 days a year and takes just five of them. Indians are also to take all of their vacation. Expedia found that 20 per cent of workers in India did not take all their holidays because they " be perceived negatively at work". In America, bosses believe it is that workers use all their vacation so they can come back to work feeling .K

 

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