No-Vacation Nation

What’s more, the author explained the transformation of the meaning in the term “workaholism” and poses the different working attitude between Americans and Europeans again (Clausen 121). The word “workaholism” seems like

The theme of overemployment is a current problem in the United States. Americans are overworked. Workload has increased and society has experienced a loss of leisure. Overemployment and overworked can be defined as negative effects that occur when individuals are required to work more hours than they want to work. “Personal perceptions of workload are critical, as individuals have diverse reactions to the number of hours worked depending on their needs, lifestyle, expectations, and experiences. Individuals have different tolerances for demands and stress. While many, including professionals

Often times when a new president is elected, issues in office are usually faint and non-existent, but when the 43rd president of the United States (George W. Bush) was put into office all of the sunny days and laughter went away. Personally, I would disagree with the amount of work accomplished while he was in office. There should never be a time when any duties sought out for the president should be put aside for “vacation”.

In “Hit the Rest Button in Your Brain,” Daniel J. Levitin successfully argues that taking a vacation will not only allow you to be with family but also help your brain rest. Appealing to ethos and logos, he uses statistics and reasoning to reach out to his intended readers on how taking a vacation can be a “false break” (Levitin 1). Also, Levitin explains certain suggestions and proposals towards to what a human being does and ties in with how it can affect people throughout the day. Levitins context readers would be people who work many hours and never take a vacation or who read this specific newspaper The New York Times.

There has always been a common misconception that we must work hard to find success. In some cases this is true. However according to Ellen Goodman in her article “The Company Man” success is not measured through how many hours a person works a week, but how we choose to live our life. Goodman’s article targets the atypical hard working middle class who tend to dedicate their entire lives to their job; in this case a 51 year old workaholic man named Phil who worked himself to death. She explains how the life’s of these type of people slowly deteriorates. She describes Phil as an overweight man who has no hobbies nor is involved with anything out side of work including his family. We must evaluate what is important in life and not have our whole lives revolve around work. It is important we prioritize family, have hobbies, and realize that we are just an employee nothing else.

The social atmosphere surrounding the idea of work and the lack of leisure time is attributing a large unkindness to the society in which holds the values. That society is the American Society. Hamrick would explain that Americans have psychologically been trained to accept a growing need to be busy, and where once the word stress was foreign, now it is a part of every American’s vocabulary.

In “No Time to Think”, Levy talks about how Americans need more leisure time. People are so busy and always working that they have no time for leisure. Levy also talks about how we are living in a fast pace society and that this is why Americans are working more then they need to. New technology has made it a huge concern that industries are over producing. “For labor, it was an argument for reduced hours and greater leisure time: if more was being produced then needed, why not slow down?” (Levy, 7) With all the new technology we

The week before I arrived to work at the firm Nevada had taken a week-long vacation but, that behavior was seen as rare within the confines’ of the book. Papantonio accounted that between 20 and 26% of lawyers demand 5 to 4 weeks respectfully of vacation (Papantonio, 1995). He proceeds to state that only 8% took 5 weeks off and 16% took 4 weeks off (Papantonio, 1995). Lawyers are by their very nature workaholics and they will refuse to take time off but, Nevada was not constrained to that style of thinking. He took time off to travel and relax which in turn mitigated is potential to burnout. The fact that most lawyers work 250 hours or more a month should equate that they need to take time off from time to time but, most lawyers ultimately refuse to. Papantonio accounts in his survey that 41.1 % of survey recipients can’t relax (Papantonio, 1995). As against his time during the internship, Nevada was refreshed and motivated to try new ideas. A vacation every once and while seems to be a necessity to prevent burning out. Once he returned from his

As family and work patterns shift over the years, the demand for time off for family and medical needs has subsequently increased as well. Given the growing number of dual-earner families in the United States, employees often find themselves caught between the pressures of work and family responsibilities, especially during the birth of a baby, or the illness of a family member. The balance between work and family has become an urgent priority for millions of working-class employees because of the high labor force participation and the caregiving needs of the growing population; yet, the U.S. is the only high-income country in the world that lacks paid leave policies. Though some private businesses and individual states have implemented

Hi Aris, thank you for following up - my apologies in the delay, it's been a busy week wrapping up before our company vacation. I also want to thank you for taking the time to apply to Above Average, Lauren and I enjoyed the opportunity to speak with you and hear more about all of your past experiences at EBONY and the Brooklyn Nets.

Dickey argues that paid time off is necessary in the lives of Americans. He points out that the vast majority of Americans realize that vacations and paid time off are important to both employees and employers even though they rarely use all of their allotted time. Branching from that, he brings to light that three European nations that offer guaranteed paid time off also have a higher Gross Domestic Products per population than the US: Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Norway. He then goes on to explain that employees do not use their paid time off because vacations are expensive, people are still trying to recover from the resesions, and because there is no guarantee that if someone goes on a long vacation that they will have a job when they return to home. Afterwards, Dickey gives a history of vacation in the United States. According to him the idea of vacations began to grow with the middle class in the years after the Civil War. He mentions President William Taft spoke in favor of vacations for workers in the US and he then correlates a rise in worker productivity to the creation of the highway system, which created many vacation opportunities for the average worker. He continues noting that in the Seventies people began working more to maintain the same lifestyle and by the early twenty-first century one in three Americans was overworked. To Dickey, workers are too connected to

Even activities meant for recreation are ruined by work. The vacations could be pestered by work. Sports become work instead of fun.

Have you ever wondered what the work ethic is like in another part of the world? What if you heard working more than 35 hours a week is not a requirement outside of the United States? A few years ago I traveled to Europe, I was intrigued to find out during our time in Paris that working more than 35 hours a week was not a custom work standard. The work hour difference between France and the United States is on average 330 hours per year (____). Being a typical American “workaholic”, the work standards in France peaked my interest; through observations during our trip and further investigation here I share my findings.

If you're someone who is constantly on the job, and your friends are calling you a workaholic, then this article is definitely for you. Working hard in life is never a bad thing. The bills need to be paid, right? However, overworking yourself can really take its toll after enough time goes by. Giving your brain a vacation is something you should do at least once a year, depending on your job, if not more.

Work and non-work life relation can be discussed under three category; extension/spill over, Opposition/compensation, and Neutrality (Parker, 1982). Opposition approach of the work-leisure relationship typology says, work and leisure are opposite to one another. Voluntarily performed activity in the domain of work place is sharply differentiated from that one performs in his/her behavioral regime (McDonald et al., 2005). It is more likely when people find their work uninteresting and finish the work-shift by doing something differently enjoyable. Neutrality typology of Parker (1983) suggests no causal relationship between work and leisure. Mageni and Slabbert (2005) argued that the work-leisure relationship is difficult to identify from the Parker’s typology due to several limitations. First, it is likely that occupation