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An article in the New York Times in 1910 asked 'How long should a man’s vacation be?’: businessmen, academics and politicians discussed whether vacations for the working classes were necessary and why. Today, European workers enjoy a minimum of 20 days paid annual leave (plus statutory days) and the tourism industry employs more...

I’m still on vacation so I thought you might enjoy this in my absence: The first week of August is one of the most popular times for people to take off work. But it might just make us better at our job. For proof, I’m resending this article from 2011 on the science of productivity. A 2010 survey...

I am on a working vacation for the next few weeks so I thought the next few posts about psychologists and the value of vacations would make for good summer reading: When Jewish intellectuals fled Europe around the time of World War II and immigrated to cities like New York, they brought with them the practices...

The Supreme Court appeared unlikely to strike down a Minnesota law that keeps people from collecting on their exes’ life-insurance policies. Minnesota enacted the statute at issue in 2002 to address the tendency of couples unintentionally failing to update such documents after a divorce. At a hearing on the law, the Supreme Court noted that some...