A New Study Shows Saving Your Vacation Time Can Do More Harm Than Good

By Rachel Gillett

Americans have a notoriously complicated relationship with vacations: We know we need to take them, and yet many of us rarely do.

Now, thanks to a new study on time off, that relationship just got even more complicated.

In 2013, a whopping 42% of working Americans reported they didn't take a single vacation day. According to the new Project: Time Off study conducted by consumer research company GfK Public Affairs, the average US worker took just 16 days of paid time off, down from the more than 20 days workers took off between 1976 and 2000.