Vanessa Fuhrmans

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · PTO Hacks: The Strategy Behind Boosting Your Vacation Time · 10 Jan 2024 podcast

At least a week-long vacation is really essential. matched

In fact, if you can, it's really essential you do that at least two times a year. matched

And by that, I mean five days bracketed by two weekends so that you really have a nine-day stretch. matched

And there's a lot of science that backs up why you should take a little longer vacation. matched

In terms of health benefits, we really don't see the peak health benefits of taking time off until around the eighth day. matched

And in fact, a study that was published just this last year by researchers at the University of South Australia in Adelaide that showed that matched

that if you take at least a week-long vacation, say one to two weeks, then the after effects, the positive benefits, tend to last longer than if you took a vacation either for a shorter period amount of time or a longer amount of time. matched

Yeah, well, I think it's a good goal to shoot for. matched

Yeah, that was another thing I thought was interesting. matched

In talking to some of the people I did for this story, and I would say they were people, not necessarily all scientists, but people who have thought about how to strategize this, there's a really good case to be made for taking Mondays off. matched

A lot of us think, let's start the weekend early, take the Friday off. matched

You get to get going all that much sooner. matched

But Fridays, after doing this reporting, are kind of overrated. matched

First of all, there's the delayed gratification of taking the Monday off. matched

So come Sunday night, you've still got another day off. matched

Second of all, the cadence of the work week works in favor of taking the Monday off. matched

If you take the Friday off, a lot of times you tend to matched

then try to pack in the whole week's worth of work Monday through Thursday, which leads to a bit more stress leading up to the vacation. matched

If you take the Monday off, chances are your colleagues have no choice but to start the work week without you, and then you jump into the fray. matched

It has to do a lot with American work culture. matched

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