Labor Day: Americans Can't Rest

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Americans are less likely to go on vacation and work more at home. Some of them even work on Labor Day.

The tendency to ignore rest began more than 15 years ago, according to Project Time Off. Even leaving the office, they can not forget about work. According to the Pew research center, 35% of people working online say that the number of working hours has increased thanks to the Internet, email and mobile phones.

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don't use your vacation: 41% of Americans did not use a single vacation day in the 2015 year, according to a Skift survey. 55% of Americans did not fully use their vacation in the 2015 year, according to a recent study, Project Time Off.

Work on holidays: more than one third of employers require subordinates to go to work on Thanksgiving Day, according to Bloomberg BNA's 2015 survey. Almost every second of 5 organizations (39%) requires some employees to go out on Christmas or New Year's Eve, reports BNA. And this weekend, 41% of employers called employees to work.

Salary is not growing: data from the Economic Policy Institute, published last year, show that while workers produce more, wages do not increase at the same rate. The middle class pay stagnant, and college graduates' wages are falling.

Can not take paid leave for family reasons: unlike almost all countries around the world, the United States does not provide paid leave for newly-made parents. New Zealand, France, Spain and Russia guarantee 100-paid weekly maternity leave paid in 14%. In the US, the Family Leave Act gives 12 weeks of unpaid leave, but many employees are not entitled to it.

Worried about their future: about a quarter of Americans believe that corporate budget cuts / corporate restructuring will limit their growth potential over the coming 5 years.

The US is not the most overworked country: Turkey and Mexico lead in the number of working hours of the population. The United States (where workers, on average, work around 34,4 hours a week) does not even make it to the top five. In the 2014 year, it occupied the 16 place.

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