With this weekend marking the unofficial start of summer, there’s a good chance you’ll start seeing your office a bit emptier each week, with people heading off for vacation. In fact, a new poll finds that summer is one of the more popular times of year for people to take off.
An AccounTemps survey reveals that 58% of workers save their vacation time for the summer months of June, July and August. Overall, 31% of employees plan to take between one and five days off during the summer, while 29% will take between five and ten.
As for where more people are taking off, Los Angeles tops the list with 74% of employees saving their vacation time for summer, followed by New York and Detroit (71%), and Miami (69%). On the flipside, those in Phoenix are the least likely to be saving vacation for summer (44%), followed by Tampa (46%) and Nashville (48%)
- And when it comes to amount of days, those in San Francisco are taking the most with 13, followed by New York and Miami, where folks will take about 12.
Source:AccounTemps