Spending time with family is all the holiday some people are looking for
We're entitled to our holidays from work each and every year, yet almost half of British workers have not used up their holiday allowance in the past year.
The research, conducted by Thompson Holidays, also found that one in five parents can't take enough time off work to have a holiday at all.
Depressingly, some 10 per cent already know that they won’t use all their holiday allowance.
Nicky Cox, MBE, editor of award winning children’s newspaper First News, says: “Forget ‘me time’ and ‘you time’, what we need now is ‘our time’, together as a family."
The research, commissioned by Thomson to coincide with the publication of a new All Party Parliamentary Group report – Giving Britain a Break – shows that each member of the average British household, whether parent or child, truly values family time on holiday as the most precious and memorable time spent together each year. And when asked what parents would ideally like to do with their children if they had some time off work, more than half would go on holiday.
Work is taking its toll so much these days, that over two thirds are home late so they can’t spend time with their kids and for those that do get home, more than one in eight are working on their Blackberry’s, mobiles or laptops. Over a quarter of parents stated that in an average week they spend less than an hour a day together with their children – despite almost half saying they wanted to spend more time together.
Dads are missing out more than mums - with an hour less time with their children each day - adding up to almost a year by the time they leave school. But with parents working longer and harder than ever before, true quality time together is becoming alarmingly rare.
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