There are also 50% claiming the reasons they didn’t use up their full holiday because they had nowhere to go, don’t need that much holiday (!) and enjoy work too much.
tombola, an online bingo website, has recently uncovered that 50% of Britons don’t feel comfortable requesting for time off and resulted in not taking their rightfully earned holiday allowance.
This percentage is made up from:
- 38% said they are too busy at work
- 7% said their boss doesn’t approve their holiday requests
- 5% said their colleagues would feel they weren’t contributing
However, there are also 50% claiming the reasons they didn’t use up their full holiday because they had nowhere to go, don’t need that much holiday (!) and enjoy work too much.
- 23% said they had nowhere to go
- 19% said they don’t need that much holiday
- 8% said they enjoy work too much
With these reasons given by UK workers, it’s not surprising to find that 44% of Brits don’t use all of their holiday allowance last year! That’s almost half of us. It made worse when tombola discovered that of those 44% workers, almost 1 in 3 (28%) of them had 5+ days of holiday went unspent.
Here’s how much holiday allowance went unspent last year in Britain:
- 28% – 5+ days
- 3% – 4 days
- 4% – 3 days
- 5% – 2 days
- 4% – 1 day
It means these 28% of Britons worked at least an extra FULL working week for free, while they should be taking some downtime to recharge or doing something they like.
Tatiana is the news coordinator for TravelDailyNews Media Network (traveldailynews.gr, traveldailynews.com and traveldailynews.asia). Her role includes monitoring the hundreds of news sources of TravelDailyNews Media Network and skimming the most important according to our strategy.
She holds a Bachelor's degree in Communication & Mass Media from Panteion University of Political & Social Studies of Athens and she has been editor and editor-in-chief in various economic magazines and newspapers.
