Are You Granting Yourself and Your Team the Right to Rest?

Ah, the infamous out-of-office auto-reply message. How we love to turn it on… but are we turning it on often enough?

According to Emma Seppala, who holds positions in emotional intelligence research at Stanford and Yale, the answer is a firm no. While researching for her book The Happiness Project, Emma found the following statistics, which are consistent with research from Forbes and Psychology Today on the same subject:

• 55% of Americans did not use all their vacation days in 2015.
• 41% still check in on work while they are on vacation.
• 84% of U.S. executives have canceled vacations to work.