By Kyle Emshwiller
Who’s more likely to plan a vacation, you or your boss? According to a recent survey, it’s your boss who is more likely to put up an “out-of-office” message.
According to a recent CareerBuilder survey, 81 percent of managers have taken or plan to take vacation this year, compared to 65 percent of full-time employees.
The percentage is slightly bigger than last year, when only 61 percent of employees said they had taken or planned to take a vacation. However, before the recession, in 2007, that figure was at 80 percent.
Here are a few highlights from the survey:
- Long vacations–Seventeen percent of workers took or planned to take a vacation for 10 days or more.
- Checking In–Three in 10 workers contact work during their vacation. Thirty-seven percent of managers say they expect their employees to check with work while on vacation, although most say this is only if the employee is involved in a big project or major issue going on with the company.
- Giving up days–Fifteen percent of workers reported they gave up vacation days last year because they didn’t have time to use them.
- “Stay-cations”–Thirty-eight percent of workers stayed home or are planning to stay home for a vacation.
- Left behind–Twenty-three percent of workers say they once had to work while the family went on vacation without them.