Mark Dolliver's Takes: Mixed Blessings

Work is the curse of the vacation-marketing class. The trouble is that American workers have become chronically bad about taking the vacation time they’ve earned. A Rasmussen Reports poll finds that 56 percent of workers who get vacation time don’t use all of it. That includes the 30 percent who use less than half of it. Twenty percent will make do this year with long weekends instead of a full-fledged vacation. While today’s stressful workplace likely makes people eager to get away from it all, many remain tethered to the job even when not there.