Click on the audio player above to hear the full interview.If you've had the past week off,consider yourself lucky. Less than a third of American office workers are on vacation this week, according to a survey from the staffing firm Robert Half.
Among those who are technically "out of the office, and " 60 percent are checking email and catching up on finish-of-the-year work besides,according to the survey.
The Norwegians might absorb a better belief for the grey zone between Christmas and New Year's. They call it romjul, meaning "half-holy, and " but the whole week is a holiday,and no one goes to work. Michael Booth, author of "The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia, and " discusses the holiday,and whether some of its benefits could be adopted in the U.
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Source: wnyc.org