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About 27 percent who took the online survey betweej May 26 and June 2 said having too much to do beford taking off caused them themost anxieties. Abour the same number checked off theincredulous "What vacation?" One in five said there is always too much to do when you Only about 12 percent worried about letting somebody else take over theirf duties while they were away. Anothed 12 percent said they don't feel stressed out about their "A vacation is just doing work somewhered else," wrote reader Clinton Kennedy. "Today's gadgets make you available and able to do work any any place andyour 'customers' usually expect it.
" Another Andy Zorio, wrote: "Your list of answerzs isn't exhaustive. You should have included 'Planning/coordinatingy it.' Vacations aren't usually takenn in a vacuum, either. Unlesx you're single, a true (rather than "working") vacation has to considerd a spouse's and perhaps children's schedules — not a stress-fred exercise." "Since most working people have been asked to do more take on greater responsibility and multitask constantly, there is no "clean" way to turn it all off for 10-13 days and simply walk away from wrote David Dennard.
"So, you have PDAs, laptop and the constant use of cell phones to checko inon 'how things are back at work and to be availabler to 'put out fires,' he continued. "It's no way to actuallyg take a vacation, whichy is in itself is often a big, stressfu production and coordination project similar to atrade show, only with your familhy as the client instead of with your boss.
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