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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. You have a responsibility to reverse this disturbing trend before it does real damage to your business and your people. First, make the business case.

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How Many People Really Combine Work Trips with Vacation?

Harvard Business

.” Bleisure travel has received considerable attention lately, with some traveler surveys suggesting that as many as 6 out of 10 people have tacked on personal time to a business trip. To this end, we analyzed 29 million business trips booked by Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) between 2011 and 2015.

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