Report: Many workers are more hesitant to request PTO during pandemic, just when they need it most
Your workforce is neglecting important time off, leading to mental health problems and employee burnout. Here’s why.
New data suggests that workers might be neglecting crucial down time in the middle of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.
According to a report commissioned by the Milwaukee-based Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, 38% of workers have become more hesitant to request personal time off during the pandemic, even though 40% acknowledge that employers have added more PTO days since the crisis began. Almost half (47%) of respondents said they have gone a full calendar year without taking any PTO.
Encouraging employees to take PTO is a core part of fighting employee burnout, a problem that more and more organizations face as the pandemic threatens to extend far into the new year with elevated threat levels. Employees not taking their PTO has been a problem since at least March of last year. Business Insider profiled a New York City-based IT firm that saw employees neglecting their PTO as a warning sign in August of 2020. It wrote:
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