A late evening storm rolled through Cleveland on Wednesday night, May 26, 2021, and left a spectacular sunset behind. Everywhere I looked, there was another great view at Edgewater Park. David Petkiewicz, cleveland.comCLEVELAND, Ohio — You may not know what a “quiet vacation” is. But according to a recent poll, half the workers reading this sentence have likely taken one near the Fourth of July.
Breaks make employees more productive, Long said. But if workers are afraid to tell their boss, it’s a “red flag that there’s a problem with your organizational culture.” Tim Osiecki, a director at Harris Poll, said quiet vacationing “doesn’t necessarily require taking an entire day off. It could involve just a few hours within a workday where the individual is technically available but chooses not to engage in work-related tasks or communications.”
Many workers said this was because there was too heavy a workload, or pressure to always be available to work, while others said there was a fear taking time off would impact their chance of getting a promotion. People have always decided when to put in more, less or minimal effort at their jobs, depending on the task at hand, Boyatzis said.
She said employees who don’t take their PTO often do so when an organization is in financial distress or when managers are encouraging workers to work harder, but not encouraging breaks.