From: The Washington Post
Latest research: Why everyone should take vacation
August 7, 2014
The Washington Post:
We Americans work hard. Weekends are more like workends. We sleep with our smartphones. And we think vacations are for wimps. So we don’t take them. Or take work along with us if we do.
But what if taking vacation not only made you healthier and happier, as a number of studies have shown, but everyone around you? And what if everybody took vacation at the same time? Would life be better, not just for you, but for the entire society?
Yes, argues Terry Hartig, an environmental psychologist at Uppsala University in Sweden. Yes, indeed.
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