Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Caroline Castrillon covers career, entrepreneurship and women at work. Even though employees take fewer paid vacation days than ...

It's summer, prime time for vacation, yet many of us leave time off on the table. We shouldn't. In fact, over my 20-plus-year career, most of the innovative thinking and productive behavior I have ...

The U.S. and Sri Lanka share a rare distinction: Neither guarantees workers paid annual leave.

Workers tend to leave paid time off, like vacation days, on the table each year. Those unused days may not roll over to next year; you may also not get a financial benefit by forgoing them. There are ...

In December, Americans were holding on to hundreds of millions of days of unused paid time off, referred to as PTO. By the end of the month, many of those days vanished, just as they do every year ...

Paid time off policies that employees perceive to be "good" can help create a positive work-life balance and prevent burnout, allowing employees to disconnect. Of course, not all policies are created ...

Data: Equal Futures; Map: Danielle Alberti/Axios Chalk it up to American exceptionalism: The U.S. is one of only nine countries in the world that doesn't guarantee workers some kind of paid annual ...