According to the travel planning site's informal poll, the median number of vacation days allotted to Europeans was 28 days, and workers tended to take advantage of all or most of these.
Yet more than half of all Americans now fail to take all of their vacation days and 30percentnt of Americans use less than half their allotted vacation time.
He told his staff on several occasions not to deduct time from his allotted vacation days when he was out of the office, saying he should not be considered on vacation if reachable by cellphone and BlackBerry.
Last year, just over one-third of the country's working adults aged 18 and up chose not to take all of their allotted vacation time, according to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive for travel Web site Expedia.com.
Respondents from several European countries reported taking almost all of their 28 average allotted vacation days.
Nearly 42percentt of people reported not using a single of their 10 average allotted vacation days.
The average American worker barely takes advantage of half of their allotted vacation time, according to a Glassdoor survey released earlier this year.
In November, Expedia's annual Vacation Deprivation Study, which randomly surveyed 7,855 employed people across 24 countries in Asia Pacific, Europe, North America and South America, found that Americans took 14 of their 15 average allotted vacation days.
According to testimony by Congressman Doggett, "...the amount of time required for the treatment of a veteran's service-connected disability exceeds the amount of vacation and sick leave allotted to the veteran.
Increasingly, buying a vacation home means allotting more dollars to cover insurance premiums, as rates in coastal towns soar and insurance companies move to stop writing policies altogether.
