{"id":216230,"date":"2025-01-30T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=216230"},"modified":"2025-01-30T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T15:00:14","slug":"are-you-taking-all-of-your-time-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=216230","title":{"rendered":"Are You Taking All of Your Time Off?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nearly half of American workers failed to use all their paid time off in 2024\u2014and Georgia employees were no exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 <strong>What\u2019s Happening:<\/strong> A <a href=\"https:\/\/solitaired.com\/where-americans-left-the-most-pto-unused\">new survey by Solitaired<\/a> found that 51% of Georgia workers left PTO unused last year. On average, employees across the state left behind 3.67 days of time off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udf34 <strong>Why It Matters:<\/strong> The top reason workers in Georgia took time off? Travel. According to the survey, 57% of residents used PTO to get away, making it the most popular reason for taking time off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udcca <strong>A Surprising Statistic:<\/strong> Despite leaving days on the table, Georgia workers were among the most satisfied in the country. About 41% said they were happy with the amount of PTO they received\u2014the second-highest satisfaction rate in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udca1 <strong>Big Picture:<\/strong> Georgia workers aren\u2019t alone in not taking full advantage of their benefits. Nationally, 47% of Americans reported leaving PTO unused in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=21]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half of American workers failed to use all their paid time off in 2024\u2014and Georgia employees were no exception. \ud83d\udea8 What\u2019s Happening: A new survey by Solitaired found that 51% of Georgia workers left PTO unused last year. On average, employees across the state left behind 3.67 days of time off. \ud83c\udf34 Why It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":198114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[17035,17036],"class_list":["post-216230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-economy","tag-paid-time-off","tag-time-off","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}