Hospitality workers typically take just half of their annual leave allowance

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created a tool allowing workers within different sectors to compare their holiday entitlement. Pam Hinds, head of HR at RotaCloud, said: “Employees should always take their holidays – but as our annual leave tool has shown, many don’t.“Those working in hospitality, in particular, have had to work exceptionally hard to meet the requirements of the public over the last few years – usually doing long, antisocial hours, and covering days when many other people are enjoying time off.“While we have medical professionals who, according to our data, sometimes use more than their entitlement, and rightly so – no doubt to have rest days in order to cope with their incredibly stressful and demanding jobs.”The data found 69% of workers didn’t take all of their annual leave last year, with some opting to lose out on days altogether.But a separate study of 2,000 workers, also commissioned by RotaCloud, found 43% are allowed to roll over any unused holiday allowance into the following year.One in five cited having too much work to do as the main reason why they don’t take all their entitlement.And one in six don’t trust there won’t be new Covid restrictions, so still don’t want to take the risk to travel.Having no-one to hand work over to, and feeling the hassle of coming back to a mountain of work, prevent 16% from using their allowance.And other top reasons include holidays being too expensive, finding it hard to co-ordinate breaks with a partner, and not wanting to leave colleagues in the lurch.Sadly, more than one in ten claim it is pointless taking holiday, as they’d only work the whole time anyway.However, of those who don’t always have annual leave leftover, 38% have been known to take MORE time off than normally allocated.On.