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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 406" data-attributes="member: 1"><a href="https://hbr.org/2018/09/how-to-minimize-stress-before-during-and-after-your-vacation" target="_blank">How to Minimize Stress Before, During, and After Your Vacation - Harvard Business Review</a>It’s a Catch-22 millions of workers face: You plan a vacation to relax, rejuvenate, and forget all about the stresses of work. But being out of the office means cramming in extra work up until you leave — and making up for lost time once you return. So perhaps it’s little surprise that a <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11482-009-9091-9" target="_blank">study</a> in the Netherlands found vacationers are no happier than non-vacationers after a break.But this problem can be particularly acute in the United States, where the culture often pressures people not to take vacations at all: <a href="https://projecttimeoff.com/reports/state-of-american-vacation-2018/" target="_blank">more than half</a> (52%) of American workers leave at least some vacation time unused. Pre- and post-vacation stress is a major contributor to this problem. In a survey, <a href="https://projecttimeoff.com/reports/the-state-of-american-vacation-2017/" target="_blank">40% of men, and 46%</a> of women said that just thinking about the “mountain of work” they’d return to was a major reason they hadn’t used their vacation days.</blockquote>