Current Business Research Project

Current Business Research Project

According to Howard Shapiro of The Philadelphia Inquirer, a great deal of Americans prefer to work instead of take their vacation time. Harris Interactive, a polling and research group, for the past seven years has examined the trends in unused vacation time for Expedia.com, an internet travel booker. The research showed that employees on the average were saving their vacation time for family emergencies or appointments that crop up.

Expedia, along with just about every other travel-related business, overlays the findings onto the bottom line: If people aren’t taking vacation days, they’re not taking vacation (Shapior, 2008).

In 2007 Americans failed to take 438 million vacation days, worth $60billion. This study came up with this figure by multiply the entire American workforce by three unused days, arriving at the 438 million vacation days. This figure is enough time to fill more than 5,500 lifetimes of 75 years each.

The type of research used by Harris Interactive called basic research. Basic research generates a body of knowledge by trying to comprehend how certain problems that occur in organizations can be solved.

In conclusion the researchers concluded that Americans