44% of Brits not using their holiday allowance

23% ended their last working year with more than 5 days holiday not taken.

Forty-four per cent of Brits aren’t using their full holiday allowance, according to new data from tombola.

A survey of the nation exposed the depth of the problem, with respondents citing that they are too busy at work or don’t have anywhere to go as their top reasons for not taking their breaks.

The survey also found that 23% ended their last working year with more than 5 days holiday not taken, meaning that they were effectively working those days for free.

And only 24% take a break that lasts between 6 and 10 days in one go, while 20% take 3 days or less.

Reasons Brits Aren’t Going on Holiday

• 38% are ‘too busy at work’ to take their full holiday allowance.
• Brits are so overworked that half (46%) works overtime for free, on a regular basis (daily/ weekly).
• At the end of 2018, 23% of Brits ended the year with 5+ days leftover on their annual use – this means that nearly a quarter of Britain worked an extra week.
• Holidays are no longer sacred – 44% of Brits admit that they have checked their work emails whilst being on holiday.

Although Brits regularly work overtime, the UK was placed 17th in the ‘Most Productive Countries’ report. In Luxembourg (1st place), the productivity of each employee contributes £1,506.17 to the economy, each week.

In the UK this falls considerably to £550.22 per week.