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12 Reasons Why Your Brain Craves Vacation Time<\/h1>\n

If given the choice, how many of us would have to think it over when choosing between spending two weeks on vacation and putting in the 9-5 at work? It\u2019s a fair assumption to say that most of us would choose to spend the time relaxing on a sun-kissed beach somewhere in the Caribbean, but the reality is that too many people choose the opposite \u2013 foregoing time off in order to keep working.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s in a business\u2019s interests to ensure that its employees make the most of their vacation allowance as, according to Oxford Economics, \u201c[p]aid time off leads to productivity gains as workers report returning to work refreshed and with a better attitude.\u201d<\/a> But the message appears to be getting lost in translation between managers and their employees, with studies showing that around 40% of workers feel as though they can\u2019t justify taking time off<\/a>, and that 57% are still holding on to unused vacation time at the end of the business year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One needs only to take a quick glance at the overwhelming evidence from scientific studies to understand what we already know intuitively \u2013 that vacation is good for your brain. But how exactly does it help your thought-engine to do its thing? For starters, there\u2019s the fact that taking a vacation will improve your brainpower, i.e. capacity to learn and overall mental sharpness. When your brain is completely relaxed, experiments have shown that it consolidates knowledge and brain power \u2013 improving and memorizing new skills learned the week before.<\/p>\n

And this connects with an increased ability to solve problems intuitively. The results from experiments conducted by the University of Nijmegen suggest that, when we\u2019re not actively tackling a task, our brain connects and consolidates current ideas with prior knowledge. This creates new ideas and solutions to problems while improving brain performance<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s just scratching the surface \u2013 to discover 10 other reasons why your brain craves vacation time, and the science behind them, check out the rest of the infographic below to see why you should file that holiday request as soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n

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