For the eighth consecutive year, working Americans received and used the smallest amount of vacation time compared with workers abroad, according to a survey commissioned by Expedia.com, MarketingCharts writes.

Employed US adults will leave an average of three vacation days on the table this year, giving back more than 460 million vacation days in 2008.

The eighth annual Vacation Deprivation survey also found that, despite reporting an average of 14 paid vacation days this year, 47.5 million Americans (31 percent of employed US adults) will not use all their vacation days.  Read more…