The Reward of Time

Today's employees value time as much as — or more than — money. In fact, 66 percent say that they would gladly give up some of their compensation in return for more flexibility in their working hours, according to Robert Half International. Yet some 413 million vacation days will go unused in the United States this year alone, at a time when our European counterparts are steadily increasing the number of vacation days they take each year (now averaging four to six weeks).