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As we say goodbye to 2015, many employees are using up their final vacation days of the year. That's especially true for employees whose workplaces have a "use it or lose it" policy, and don't allow staffers to roll over their days to the following year.
But at those companies that do let employees carry over much or all of their paid time off to the following year, all that accrued vacation time can start to add up. And nowhere is that more true than when it comes to top executives. The reason for those tallies, of course, is two-fold: the obvious one is that most CEOs have big paychecks, and some clearly aren't taking much of their allotted vacation.
"When you see these large values, in many cases all that means is the CEO is covered by the same policy as other employees," said Pete Lupo, Managing Director at Pearl Meyer.
Should companies urge CEOs to take their vacation, too? Perhaps, but the reality is many of these top jobs, particularly at major publicly traded corporations, simply don't have an off switch. "CEOs work seven days a week, it's the nature of that job," Pearl Meyer's Lupo said. "At that level, time is amorphous. This is not a 9-to-5 job, and it never will be."