Travel Well: Take Time Off in 2010

While Americans may roll their eyes at the nearly month-long "holidays" common to Europeans, the facts are that vacations offer vital benefits. Half the workers in the United States don't take the annual 12 days they've earned and nearly 40 percent never take more than a week at a time. Americans take even less vacation than the Japanese, the people who gave rise to karoshi-the phenomenon of being worked to death.

Joan Westlake

January 6, 2010