這是個老問題了，美國人就是不喜歡享受應(yīng)得的帶薪假期。美國旅游協(xié)會本周二發(fā)布的“休假項目”研究顯示，2016年問題仍然存在，54%參與調(diào)查的員工沒休完帶薪假，合計犧牲了6.62億個假日。

雖然半數(shù)以上受訪員工拖到年底仍放棄了帶薪假，但研究調(diào)查結(jié)果中也有一些亮點，說不定美國人可能改變有假不休的壞習慣。

2016年，未能請帶薪假的員工占比實際上比2015年下降了一個百分點，降至54%。員工實際平均帶薪假天數(shù)為16.8日，較2015年16.2日有所增加，2013和2014年平均假期天數(shù)均為史上最低的16日。

“總體而言，美國人利用的帶薪假在增加，”“休假項目”高級主管、報告的執(zhí)筆者凱蒂?丹尼斯說，“略見增長?！彼€說，這可能是個轉(zhuǎn)折點，預(yù)示著今后合理休假會變?yōu)槌B(tài)。

It's become a perennial story: Americans are terrible at taking all of their allotted vacation days. That was true again in 2016, with 54% of employees ending the year with unused time off, collectively sacrificing 662 million vacation days, according to a study the U.S. Travel Association’s Project Time Off released Tuesday.

While more than half of employees forfeited paid time off at year's end, some bright spots in the survey results hint that Americans may be in the process of reversing their bad vacation habits.

The share of employees who failed to use all their vacation time was actually down one percentage point from 55% in 2015. And the average number of vacation days logged by employees—16.8—was up from 16.2 in 2015 and an all-time low of 16 in 2014 and 2013.

" Overall Americans are using more vacation days," says Katie Denis, senior director of Project Time Off who authored the report. "There's been a slight uptick," she said, adding that it could be "the beginning" of a more significant turnaround.

上升趨勢部分由男性員工帶動。2016年48%的受訪男員工用完了所有帶薪假，占比較2015年高3個百分點。盡管表示帶薪假期“極為”重要的女性占比為58%，高于男性的49%，卻只有44%的女性用完了帶薪假期。

整體來看，2016年員工請假最大的挑戰(zhàn)是擔心返工時工作積壓太多，另一個主要原因是認為其他人無法勝任自己的工作。

這些擔憂可能沒什么根據(jù)，也可能有些夸張，但管理者很少明確指出。雖然絕大多數(shù)經(jīng)理都認為，假期有助于員工的身心健康（82%），提振士氣（82%），減輕職業(yè)倦?。?1%）。三分之二的受訪員工表示，“公司文化對休假的態(tài)度比較矛盾，并不很鼓勵，或者傳遞的信號不明確”。2014年以來，有這種看法的員工占比幾乎沒變化。

上述研究認為，溝通不善“導(dǎo)致了認識‘真空’，引發(fā)了許多負面看法?！?/p>

“休假項目”估算，2016年浪費的帶薪假給美國經(jīng)濟損失了2360億美元，因為假期原本可拉動消費，而且員工的個人收入也有負面影響。項目研究認為，和大方享受帶薪假的員工相比，放棄休假的員工績效較低，去年一年獲得擢升的可能性更低（前者可能性為27%，后者為23%），過去三年加薪或者獲得獎金的可能性也更低（享受所有休假者為84%，放棄休假者78%）。這么一看，放棄帶薪假的員工自稱壓力更大也正常。（財富中文網(wǎng)）

譯者：Pessy

審稿：夏林

The positive trend was driven, in part, by men. Forty-eight percent of them used all their vacation time last year, up three percentage points from 2015. Just 44% of women, meanwhile, took all their allotted days off despite being more likely than men—58% to 49%—to say vacation time is "extremely" important to them.

Overall, employees' concerns about returning to a mountain of work was the top challenge to taking time off in 2016, followed by the feeling that no one else can do the job.

Those concerns may be unfounded or exaggerated, but workplace leaders fail to say so even though a clear majority of managers agree that vacation improves health and well-being (82%), boosts morale (82%), and alleviates burnout (81%). Two-thirds of employees surveyed said their "company culture is ambivalent, discouraging, or sends mixed messages about time off," a share that's virtually unchanged since 2014.

That communication divide "has created a vacuum where negative perceptions thrive," the study says.

Project Time Off estimates that unused vacation days cost the U.S. economy $236 billion in 2016 because of lost spending, but there are also penalties to pay at the individual level. Employees who forfeit vacation time are lower performers, the study says. Compared to counterparts who take all their vacation time, they are less likely to have been promoted within the last year (23% to 27%), and to have received a raise or bonus in the last three years (78% to 84%). And, unsurprisingly, they are more likely to report being stressed.