Europeans may spend the entire month of August at the beach, but Americans tend to think of vacations as week-long events at most. The average full-time worker gets 10.2 paid vacation days after 3 years on the job, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and even professional workers with a decade of service average just 16. But even with that limited time off, most people won’t take most of it at once because they worry about the ramifications if they do.
