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About one-third of all employed U.S. adults typically do not take all their vacation days each year.
Workers in western states are more likely than those elsewhere in the country not to take all of their allotted time off. Four in 10 employed adults in the western United States leave vacation days unused.
U.S. workers did not use an estimated 460 million vacation days in 2008.
Nearly 20 percent say they have canceled or postponed vacation because of work concerns.
Source: Expedia.com 2008 International Vacation Deprivation Survey
Who uses the highest percentage of annual vacation days? Germans -- 81 percent take all of their allotted time.
And the lowest percentage? The Dutch. Nearly half -- 49 percent -- typically do not take all their vacation time.
Source: Expedia.com 2008 International Vacation Deprivation Survey
(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.)
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