Why I'll Be in the Office Saturday and Monday...
Mark Ames (Going Postal) on Americans' refusal to even take the meagre two weeks of vacation time we get a year...Editor's Choice on the Guardian blog.
Accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers has lately become so frustrated in its inability to force workers to take holiday time that it resorted to shutting down and locking out its 19,000 employees twice a year in order to force them to relax.One can imagine PwC's parking lot the day after forced-vacation lockdown. It would look like the scene outside of the mall in George A Romero's Dawn of the Dead: thousands of starched, dazed yuppies converging on the corporate grounds, clawing at the entrance, growling for the opportunity to just put in one more 70-hour work week.