New Delhi, April 06: India’s Generation Y has emerged as the fourth most vacation deprived lot in the world as they are able to take an average of only 22 leave days annually, a survey has found.
However, 35 per cent of those surveyed were not able to take more than 15 days of annual leave in a year.
Interestingly, over 22 per cent Indians said that their bosses were not supportive of employees taking all of their annual leaves.
On an average, Indians are entitled to 26 annual leave days but are able to take an average of 22 days leave annually, found the survey conducted by Expedia amongst the service class professionals at managerial levels and above in 11 countries in December 2010 with over 1000 respondents per country.
In the survey, Japan led the group of vacation deprived nations followed by USA (14 days) and Australia (16.5 days).
-Agencies