CTV News Canada: Global survey reveals the world's most vacation-deprived demographic
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Nov. 4, 2017
City-dwellers, journalists and advertising executives have emerged among the world's most vacation-deprived workers in a new global survey.
In Expedia's 2017 Vacation Deprivation report, researchers identified a few global patterns from the responses of 30,000 working adults living in 30 countries when it comes to work-life balance. And it appears that on a global scale, people who work in marketing and media feel the most vacation-deprived (66 per cent).
Predictably, the results also showed that people who live in rat race societies -- big cities -- have a harder time balancing work and play compared to their counterparts who live in the suburbs and rural areas.
According to the survey, the top three most deprived urban areas in the world are Seoul, Mumbai and Paris. The latter is an interesting finding given that France enjoys one of the highest numbers of vacation days and public holidays in the world.
French workers are entitled to a minimum of 25 days of paid vacation a year.
