tombola, an online bingo website, has recently uncovered that 50% of Britons don’t feel comfortable requesting for time off and resulted in not taking their rightfully earned holiday allowance.
This percentage is made up from:
- 38% said they are too busy at work
- 7% said their boss doesn’t approve their holiday requests
- 5% said their colleagues would feel they weren’t contributing
However, there are also 50% claiming the reasons they didn’t use up their full holiday because they had nowhere to go, don’t need that much holiday (!) and enjoy work too much.
- 23% said they had nowhere to go
- 19% said they don’t need that much holiday
- 8% said they enjoy work too much
With these reasons given by UK workers, it’s not surprising to find that 44% of Brits don’t use all of their holiday allowance last year! That’s almost half of us. It made worse when tombola discovered that of those 44% workers, almost 1 in 3 (28%) of them had 5+ days of holiday went unspent.
Here’s how much holiday allowance went unspent last year in Britain:
- 28% - 5+ days
- 3% - 4 days
- 4% - 3 days
- 5% - 2 days
- 4% - 1 day
It means these 28% of Britons worked at least an extra FULL working week for free, while they should be taking some downtime to recharge or doing something they like.