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3 Ways to Control Your Phone Addiction on Vacation

Harvard Business

Here’s the good news: Americans, as a whole, are finally starting to earn more and take more paid time off. According to a study by Project: Time Off, American workers took an average of 16.8 days from 2015. And the amount of vacation time earned in 2016 jumped nearly one full day—to 22.6—from

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How to Get Your Team to Use Their Vacation Time

Harvard Business

A 2015 HBR article by Ron Friedman is a treasure trove of facts about the benefits to reaction time, creativity, and engagement. Vacations are good for your people, for your team, and for your organization, but somehow vacations have become counter-cultural within our hyper-busy workplaces. First, make the business case.

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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business

We respect the hyper-local culture in places we operate,” Tan said. During this time, management noticed that proprietors who placed ads with Recruit often represented small businesses. In 2015 AirPAYMENT went live, eliminating the small-business headache of processing payments and managing cash.

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How Many People Really Combine Work Trips with Vacation?

Harvard Business

To this end, we analyzed 29 million business trips booked by Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) between 2011 and 2015. We found that, in 2015, one-fifth of business travelers took bleisure trips, and 7% of all business trips fit the bleisure profile.

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Help Your Team Achieve Work-Life Balance — Even When You Can’t

Harvard Business

I responded that even if it is the norm for this company’s culture — and potentially many others — it is not acceptable universally, nor should it be. She has anxiety about the possibility of missing an email at midnight. “Is this normal?” ” she asked me. Redistribute work more evenly.