Overloaded Employees Skip Vacations

No Time to Take Time: Like water coolers and casual Fridays, employee vacations are becoming a thing of the past. Yahoo HotJobs found in a survey of 1,100 workers that 51 percent plan to skip summer vacations this year, fearful about a possible recession and burdened by too heavy a workload. That’s higher than the 45 percent in Yahoo HotJobs’ first such survey last year.

The fallout is manifesting itself in other forms: 44 percent of workers say they shoulder greater workloads than they did a year ago, yet most of them (35 percent) can’t escape mounting pressure to boost their job performance, according to the findings. Nearly one in four workers are looking around for new jobs or updating their résumé in anticipation of doing so. Employers also should be on the lookout for employee burnout, cited as a problem by 57 percent of workers—up from 49 percent a year ago.