Think most employees can truly stay away from the office while on summer vacation?
Think again.
Slightly more than half of the 2,212 U.S. adults responding to an online Harris Interactive poll expect to be working while on vacation this year. This is up by 6 percentage points from a similar survey of 3,304 U.S. adults released last year by Adweek/Harris Poll.
The upshot is that with more Americans expecting to work this year, vacations are becoming less relaxing, according to the researchers, who sought to determine American attitudes and behavior toward working during their summer vacations.
“The study shows that although vacation is a time for relaxing, many Americans are never completely away from their jobs,” says Holger Felgner, TeamViewer’s general manager. “This growing trend demonstrates the hard work ethic Americans have, along with an increasing ability to stay connected with advances in technology.”
Of those surveyed in May for TeamViewer, an online meetings and remote-control software provider, 1,309 reported that they were worked full-time, part-time and/or self-employed. They expect to perform a variety of work-related tasks during their breaks that include:
- Reading work-related e-mails – 30%.
- Receiving work-related phone calls – 23%.
- Wanting access to a document on my home computer – 19%.
- Receiving work-related text messages – 18%.
- Wanting access to a document on their work computer – 13%.
- Being asked to do work by a boss, client or colleague – 13%.
Interestingly, employed men in particular were more likely to say they plan to work during their summer vacation this year than employed women (56% versus 47%), and employed Americans living in the West, as opposed to those living in the South, are more likely to say they’ll plan to read work-related e-mails (39% vs. 25%) during their summer vacation. Additionally, employed single Americans expect to be asked to do work by a boss, client or colleague more often than married Americans (15% versus 6%).
“With an increasing number of employees staying connected during their vacation, efficient tools are more important than ever before,” said Felgner, whose firm’s services are available in more than 30 languages.
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Posted by: Orlandoo | September 12, 2012 6:43 AM
Here I go again. Last week I talked to a friend of mine from Romania. He told me that he works 10 hours a day in a library and he earns 220 euros per month! I think that it is too much work for this amount of money considering that they pay over one euro on a milk carton and 150 euros on the rent. Think about that. Check yacht charter croatia if you are interested in this information and look for me there.
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Posted by: Orlandoo | August 21, 2012 5:33 AM
Ah, and one more thing, americans are not the ones who work most, I know some other nations who are overworked and they don't even gain much. I'm talking about the people from Romania, Mexico, China, Turkey, Croatia and many others. And I mean hard work, not desk work.
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Posted by: Orlandoo | August 21, 2012 5:29 AM
Every nation on this planet is overworked. And I think it's very sad. What do we live for? We go to school in order to study in order to be able to get a job in order to make money. Ok, what do we do with the money? We don't have time to spend it because we have to work some more. yacht booker
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Posted by: Y | July 25, 2012 6:05 PM
Americans are hardworkers. Unfortunately family and friends get the short end of the stick when there is a blur between work time and play time. I read a quote once that has stuck with me: "......someday when you're laying on your deathbed, you aren't going to be saying..."Gosh I wish I'd spent more time at the office." It is getting harder and harder for Americans to balance their lifestyles.
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Posted by: roykamen | July 21, 2012 9:38 AM
I always work on vacations. I try to get my daily exercise in but invariably have a work related podcast running on my iPhone while doing my treadmill workouts. There is however a time each day that I unplug and tell all of my employees to do the same.
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Posted by: buckwheat | July 18, 2012 4:22 PM
I believe that many Americans are hard workers. But, truly no one is irreplaceable - not even the President of the USA! That's why we have a Vice-President!!
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Posted by: CMC2003 | July 17, 2012 3:33 PM
How is it an "upshot" that vacations are becoming less relaxing or that more Americans are never completely away from their jobs. Historically speaking, Americans are hard workers; but is it a good thing to stay connected at all times? When did it become a good thing to live to work rather than work to live? I am guilty of it; staying attached to my smartphone at all times, but after taking a vacation where there was little to no cell service and returning to work feeling refreshed and ready to take on the work, I am now of the opinion that letting go every once in awhile is not only good for me, but for my employer.
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