More on “Shrinking-Vacation Syndrome”
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 08.23.06 | 1:05 PM ET
Work-life balance and vacation advocate Joe Robinson has hit the airwaves in the last couple of days, talking about Americans and their shrinking vacations. National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation and KPCC’s AirTalk both featured Robinson, who discussed, among other things, “obsessive-compulsive productivity” and what it means for our country when workers’ vacation time is vanishing.
Robinson also recently wrote a piece for the Huffington Post and was interviewed in the Smithsonian. “Within the past year England added a week to its annual vacation policy. New Zealand added a week the year before. The Chinese have three weeks—Golden Weeks,” he tells Jennifer Drapkin. “Americans have a suspicion of leisure that goes back to the Puritan work ethic: idle hands are the devil’s hands.”
Related on World Hum:
* The Shameful Rise of “Shrinking-Vacation Syndrome”
* Forget the Anti-Inflammatories. Take Two Vacations (or Even One) and Call Me in the Morning.
* One Thousand Places to See if You Weren’t Working So Damn Hard