Why Half of Your Employees Are Not Using Their Holiday Entitlement

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In the frantic run up to summer, the discussions at THT HQ have naturally drifted towards holiday entitlement, and the big question: how many people actually take their whole entitlement each year? Given that we have the data, we couldn’t resist running the numbers:

Surprisingly, 47% of our customers’ employees finished last year with holiday entitlement remaining!

Around 38% of our customers allow their employees to carry-over some portion of their holiday entitlement, but we still think there’s room for improvement.

The Myth: Employees not taking their full holiday entitlement is good for the company.

It’s easy to get lost in the basic logic that employees not taking holidays equates to higher productivity, but as with most things, it’s more complicated than it seems.

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