What's your vacation got to do with the bottom line? Everything, say industrial psychologist, but the fact doesn't seem to have penetrated very well in corporate america. The majority of people still take work with them on vacation in one form or another, and more than 25 percent of professionals don't take any absolute downtime at all.
Vacation is as important as sleep. Lack of playtime keeps you from taking in information effectively and seeing the totality of a situation. Recreation deprivation also makes you cranky and often more than a little critical of the people in your organization. You are hurting more than yourself so escape to the perfect vacation because you deserve it.
