The Atlantic, August 13, 2013, Tuesday

The Atlantic

August 13, 2013, Tuesday

The Atlantic (full article)

Why More Vacation Doesn't Always Mean Happier Workers

The "minimum vacation" factor: This is probably the strongest argument for establishing a country-wide norm for time off. Vacation laws tend to work like minimum wages, Lowell Turner, a professor of international labor at Cornell University, explained. Saying you have to pay workers at least $7.25 an hour doesn't mean everyone in the country makes $7.25 -- it just means you can't pay them less. But from that point, companies compete for workers by piling on more money.