Take your vacation, please!

The stresses of modern life leave most of us feeling like we could use a vacation.
The stresses of modern life leave most of us feeling like we could use a vacation. Flickr/Reza Vaziri
The stresses of modern life leave most of us feeling like we could use a vacation.
The stresses of modern life leave most of us feeling like we could use a vacation. Flickr/Reza Vaziri

Take your vacation, please!

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The stresses of modern life leave most of us feeling like we could use a vacation. (Flickr/Reza Vaziri)

Long hours on the job, the frenzy of multi-tasking, the responsibility of children and the drudgery of housework leave too many of us with too little time for leisure, play and recreation.

One company thinks it’s found the solution to this problem. Evernote, a California-based provider of note-taking and archiving technologies, offers its employees unlimited vacation.  

But do their employees take advantage? And would you be able to sneak away?

Check out the video below for more:

Al Gini is a professor of business ethics and chair of the department of management at Loyola University Chicago. He is also the co-founder and associate editor of Business Ethics Quarterly, and the author of several books, including My Job, My Self and Seeking the Truth of Things: Confessions of a (catholic) Philosopher.