CareerBuilder’s Vacation Survey for 2007

During the annual vacation survey for 2007 conducted by Harris interactive for CareerBuilder.com, more than 6800 workers were found to have hectic schedules and were being forced to cut their vacation time down or spend some time in the office during their vacations. The highlights of this survey included key points such as:

20 percent of workers say that they plan to keep in touch with their offices during vacation time.
20 percent of workers say they would not prefer vacation this year, although 1 in 4 still take up to 5 days of vacation time.
Nearly 1 in 10 workers will limit their vacations to simple weekend getaways.
The majority of workers feel that if they had their way they would stay for 3 weeks or more on their vacations.
IT workers are considered to work the most while on vacation with more than 36 percent keeping in touch and regularly checking in with the office during their scheduled vacation time. Sales workers are next with 32 percent and banking/finance workers come in fairly close at 29 percent.
Only 9 percent of workers say that their employers expect them to check their voicemail or emails during vacation time while some may feel pressured to do so.
And, 14 percent of workers feel guilty that they are even on vacation and not at the office.