India features as the 10th most vacation deprived nation in the 2013 Vacation Deprivation study carried out by Expedia.co.in, the world's largest online travel agency.
The results of the annual analysis of vacation and holiday habits across multiple countries and continents, were released on Monday
As per the vacation deprivation survey, India has come down five positions It occupied fourth position last year.
On an average, Indians utilise 20 out of 26 leaves granted, and they still lag behind in relishing leisure time, whether it is booking hotels for a relaxing getaway, or just staying at home.
Ninety-four per cent at least sometimes check on mails even during vacation.
"Holidays play an important role in relaxing and re-energizing employees while enhancing their motivation and productivity. Expedia strongly believes that vacations are an essential part of a healthy work life balance," said Vikram Malhi, General Manager, South and Southeast Asia Expedia India.
"In India, people still lag behind when it comes to completely letting go during their vacation. Not just this, even during regular days, Indians work for more hours than other countries with 38 per cent people working for 41-50 hours a week. This shows the need for a better work-life balance," he added.
Detailed findings of the survey are as follows:
Average number of leaves taken - 19.8
Average number of leaves granted - 25.6
63 per cent Indians still feel they are vacation deprived (10thmost vacation deprived)
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37 per cent of Indians prefer getting money in exchange of unused holidays, which is the highest number in the world, followed closely by Brazil (30 per cent)
Indians are ranked third highest in saving vacations for future use- 46 per cent of Indians save their vacations for future usage with Malaysia and Singapore leading with 56 per cent and 53 per cent respectively
32 per cent of Indians (tied with Mexico) are not able to plan because of time co-ordination problems in book flights, hotels, and other travel arrangements with spouse/friends (4th highest in the world)
Indians are highest on being too strapped with work to go for a vacation. 31 per cent of Indians don't take vacation because of workload
We want to feel important - Indians want to be present in all key decisions of the company and with a maximum % of 25, Indians are the highest in cancelling vacation due to this reason
94 per cent Indians at least sometimes check work email even on vacation which is the highest in the world, followed by France (93 per cent), Thailand (92 per cent), Malaysia (91 per cent) and Mexico (91 per cent)
13 per cent of Indians (tied with South Koreans) say they are never able to fully leave their work even on vacation, which is third highest after Japan(18 per cent) and Thailand (15 per cent)
59 per cent are not able to plan their vacation in advance because it depends on their work - again highest compared to all the other countries
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74 per cent of Indians have either cancelled/postponed their vacation due to work
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Indians are second, behind Thailand (22 per cent), in not taking leaves to be in boss' good books
18 per cent of Indians don't use all the leaves because they fear that taking all of the vacation time will be perceived negatively by their employer
India is second highest in having maximum number of over worked people with people working for an average of42 hours a week. Hong Kong is highest with people working an average of 44 hours a week
Despite being the country with one of the most overworked people, 85 per cent are satisfied with their job
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Harris Interactive fielded the online survey on behalf of Expedia between August 20 to September 12 2013 among 8,535 respondents in 24 countries.
Each country was weighted using propensity scores and/or demographic data to reflect the country's employed adult population as a whole.
Exceptions to this are Brazil, Thailand, Mexico, and India which were weighted to reflect the online employed populations of each country.
In India, three regions were surveyed: Delhi (n=95), Mumbai (n=100) and Hyderabad /Chennai /Bengaluru (n=106). These three regions were then weighted together to reflect their population size. For the global 24-country total, an additional post-weight was applied to adjust for the relative size of each country's adult population.
