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Are Summer Vacations Becoming A Thing Of The Past?

Tanveer Naseer

A Harris Interactive poll for JetBlue which found that while more than 60% of employees believed they deserved their vacation time, 57% had unused vacation time by the end of 2011. Indeed, according to the Expedia 2011 Vacation Deprivation Survey, US employees are beginning to “treat vacation as a luxury rather than a fact of life”.

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Are Summer Vacations Becoming A Thing Of The Past?

Tanveer Naseer

A Harris Interactive poll for JetBlue which found that while more than 60% of employees believed they deserved their vacation time, 57% had unused vacation time by the end of 2011. Indeed, according to the Expedia 2011 Vacation Deprivation Survey, US employees are beginning to “treat vacation as a luxury rather than a fact of life”.

Survey 235
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When People Don't Know. a Guest Post from Steve Roesler

Kevin Eikenberry

And the attrition rate in Patton’s armies was the lowest despite the greatest level of exposure. Patton who, while never accused of being warm, fuzzy, and participative, was successful by anyone’s standards when it came to quickly making changes in the worst of circumstances.

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How SAP Labs India Became An Innovation Dynamo

Harvard Business Review

SAP's senior management asked Ferose to shore up employee morale at SAP Labs India, where the attrition rate had reached a painful 19% in 2009. This belief led Ferose to overhaul SAP Labs India's hierarchical, 'top-heavy' corporate culture, allowing bottom-up creativity and innovation to blossom.