Take Two (Weeks of Vacation) and Call Us in the Morning

Eric Jones, director of IT at iPass in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, hasn’t taken a vacation in a long time. That wouldn’t be the case if he worked for Eric Berridge, co-founder and CEO of Bluewolf, a global IT services company, because his company offers unlimited vacation. The company doesn’t even track the number of days. As long as work is done, the company is happy. Is that the wave of the future? Kari Henley thinks so. She’s director of the board at the Women and Family Life Center in North Haven, Connecticut. Only 14 percent of Americans took two weeks of vacation last year and the number of Americans taking family vacations has dropped by a third in the past generation. Are we just too busy to take a break?