{"id":2010,"date":"2023-08-12T05:52:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T09:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2023-08-11T13:00:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T17:00:40","slug":"how-taking-a-vacation-improves-your-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/12\/how-taking-a-vacation-improves-your-well-being\/","title":{"rendered":"How Taking a Vacation Improves Your Well-Being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Preface: \u201cMake your vocation your vacation.\u00a0 That is the secret to success.\u201d \u2013 Mark Twain<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-hed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2023\/07\/how-taking-a-vacation-improves-your-well-being\"><strong>How Taking a Vacation Improves Your Well-Being<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Making sure your employees regularly take time off is key to creating a more sustainable workplace. Research shows that taking time off benefits employees in three ways: 1) Mentally. Taking a vacation provides greater opportunity for rest and better sleep (both quantity and quality), which can help unclutter your mind to boost creativity. 2) Body. Relaxing on vacation can reduce the levels of your stress hormones and allow your immune system to recover, making you less prone to get sick. 3) Soul. While it sounds hokey, answers to life\u2019s big questions \u2014 like \u201cWhat do I really want?\u201d or \u201cWhat\u2019s most important to me?\u201d \u2014 are more likely to come to us when there is some space and stillness&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;We all know that taking vacation is good for you, but it\u2019s less clear that both employers and employees understand exactly just how good\u00a0it is for you, given that every year more than half of Americans give up paid time off. According to the\u00a0U.S. Travel Association, in 2018, this amounted to 768 million days of unused vacation time, with more than 30% of it forfeited completely. Add to this, the fact that over\u00a050% of managers\u00a0feel burned out, taking vacation (and\u00a0actually unplugging) has never been more important.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2023\/07\/how-taking-a-vacation-improves-your-well-being\"><strong>How Taking a Vacation Improves Your Well-Being<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preface: \u201cMake your vocation your vacation.\u00a0 That is the secret to success.\u201d \u2013 Mark Twain How Taking a Vacation Improves Your Well-Being Making sure your employees regularly take time off is key to creating a more sustainable workplace. Research shows that taking time off benefits employees in three ways: 1) Mentally. Taking a vacation provides &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/12\/how-taking-a-vacation-improves-your-well-being\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Taking a Vacation Improves Your Well-Being&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}