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Send the Boss on That Needed Vacation
When it comes to hard work, Americans tend to overindulge. They work too many hours, they work too many days, and they work too many weeks a year compared with their counterparts in other parts of the world.
That certainly helps when you are measuring gross domestic product or company profits. It’s not so helpful when you are measuring fatigue or burnout.
It’s particularly bad if the boss sets the standard extremely high when it comes to a work schedule. It can be especially bad when the term vacation is not part of the boss’s vocabulary. I’ve worked for bosses who seemingly couldn’t or wouldn’t take the ...
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