Poll finds many types of vacation stress - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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About 27 percent who took the onlinee survey between May 26 and June 2 said having too much to do befor e taking off caused them the most About the same numbee checked off theincredulous "What vacation?" One in five said there is always too much to do when you Only about 12 percent worriedx about letting somebody else take over theid duties while they were away. Anothetr 12 percent said they don't feel stressed out about their vacations. "A vacation is just doing work somewherwe else," wrote reader Clinton Kennedy. "Today's gadgeta make you available and able to do work any any place andyour 'customers' usuallyy expect it.
" Another reader, Andy Zorio, "Your list of answers isn't exhaustive. You shoulrd have included 'Planning/coordinating it.' Vacations aren'gt usually taken in a vacuum, either. Unless you'rse single, a true (rather than "working") vacation has to consider a spouse's and perhaps children's schedules — not a stress-frees exercise." "Since most working people have been askec to domore jobs, take on greater responsibility and multitas constantly, there is no "clean" way to turn it all off for 10-154 days and simply walk away from wrote David Dennard.
"So, you have PDAs, laptopse and the constant use of cell phonez to check inon 'how things are going' back at work and to be availabl e to 'put out fires,' he continued. "It's no way to actually take a vacation, whicgh is in itself is ofte a big, stressful production and coordinatiojn project similar to atrade show, only with your familuy as the client insteas of with your boss.
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