'A Nation in Dire Need of a Vacation' Essay in New York Daily News

Jon and I published an op-ed in the New York Daily News today about our nation's dire need for more vacation:

"HOW LONG SHOULD A MAN'S VACATION BE?" asked the New York Times in an all-caps headline in 1910. The question was prompted by a recent statement by then-President Taft calling for three months of annual vacation for every American.

If we only vacation two weeks annually, the President warned, we will "exhaust the capital of (our) health and constitution" and be unable to return to our work with "energy and effectiveness." His countrymen, he pleaded, "ought to have a change of air where they can expand their lungs and get exercise."

With Taft's comments a century behind us, the Times' question remains relevant. To begin to answer, we must first consider how much — in fact, how little — we are vacationing already.

Read the whole essay — A nation in dire need of a vacation — here.