{"id":11421,"date":"2011-11-30T02:11:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T02:11:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-11-30T04:11:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T04:11:37","slug":"Only-Asians-take-less-vacas-than-Americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=11421","title":{"rendered":"Only Asians take less vacas than Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s still a month to go before the end of the year, but most Americans will let their last remaining vacation days go unused.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The average American worker earned 14 vacation days this year but will only take 12 of them, according to a survey by Expedia. That&#8217;s about the same number of days they left on the table last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While two forfeited days of vacation may not seem like a lot, it can really add up. Altogether, <strong>Americans are giving up 226 million unused vacation days this year.<\/strong> <strong>Considering that, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average full-time worker earns $39,416 a year &#8212; that&#8217;s $34.3 billion worth of time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The reason most workers say they chose to slave away at work rather than relax on a beach, is that they could not afford to travel, Expedia said. &#8220;Lack of planning&#8221; was the second-most-cited excuse among those surveyed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Only in Asian countries did workers put less emphasis on vacations than Americans, according to the survey. In Japan, for example, workers earned 11 days a year and used just five.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Expedia&#8217;s Vacation Deprivation online survey polled 7,803 workers in 20 countries.<\/p>\n<p><em>Continue reading <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/11\/30\/pf\/unused_vacation\/index.htm\">cnn.money.com<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s still a month to go before the end of the year, but most Americans will let their last remaining<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"colormag-highlighted-post":false,"colormag-featured-post-medium":false,"colormag-featured-post-small":false,"colormag-featured-image":false,"colormag-default-news":false,"colormag-featured-image-large":false,"colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":false},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"There&#8217;s still a month to go before the end of the year, but most Americans will let their last remaining","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":134,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":1,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":false,"medium":false,"thumbnail":false},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}