Chip Cutter
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first heard Aug 2019
last heard Sep 2024
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Employees Are Being Offered Cash Incentives to Take Time Off · 9 Apr 2021
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And I think many bosses have said the same, but you can't ignore the fact that there are financial ramifications to all of this, and that vacation balances and vacation time is treated as a financial liability.
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So that's interesting.
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I think some companies certainly track this and will let people know, hey, we've noticed you're not taking your vacation time.
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But I think there's a fine line here and bosses don't want to feel like they're being punitive or that somehow vacation time becomes this issue that managers and employees are quibbling over or has leads to disagreements.
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I think there is a line that bosses have to walk here.
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But at the same time, I think bosses
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Many companies do track this.
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They get reports, they see who isn't taking vacation time, and that can then lead to conversations and one-on-one meetings in which bosses are telling workers, hey, it's time to start planning for that time off.
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many people are kind of discovering that work is really always there, that it's an email or Slack message, it's easy to open your laptop and go to the kitchen table where you've been spending most of your day working.
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Hi, JR.
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Thanks.
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Well, that's right.
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I think many thought that they could spend the extra hours that they used to spend commuting or going to the office, spending all of that on their personal health, on getting more physical fitness, on eating better.
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I think a lot of people had hopes that there might be some silver linings to this work-from-home reality.
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And what many had discovered over the past year is that they've just filled all this extra time with work, that they've just poured themselves into their jobs and now really struggle to figure out
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when work should stop.
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And I think that's been an issue across the corporate sphere, where many employees say that they just feel like there is now no clear end between the start and end of a day, and they just feel like they're just working constantly and feeling the effects of that.
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many people are kind of discovering that work is really always there, that it's an email or Slack message, it's easy to open your laptop and go to the kitchen table where you've been spending most of your day working, that there's no longer that physical separation of space.
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And I think that's been hard for a lot of professionals.
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And I think what most people will also say is that the demands have increased, that because there are so many fewer opportunities to focus on leisure activities still,
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