{"id":204869,"date":"2018-07-25T08:52:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T07:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.finder.com\/uk\/?p=204869"},"modified":"2025-01-06T13:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T13:20:13","slug":"press-release-july-2018-holiday-planning-work-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finder.com\/uk\/media\/press-release-july-2018-holiday-planning-work-hours","title":{"rendered":"Over half of Brits plan holidays on the job, costing the UK \u00a39.3bn a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Employees spend 29 minutes a week planning holidays at work, wasting over three working days every year<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Millennials are the most likely to plan trips on the job, with three quarters (74%) actively doing so<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">British workers spend half as long looking at holidays compared to their Australian counterparts (57 minutes per week)<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">25 July, 2018, LONDON \u2013<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over half (58%) of British employees plan their holidays during work hours every week, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">according to a new study from personal finance comparison site finder.com.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The average employee spends 29 minutes planning getaways every week, meaning they <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">waste more than three working days a year holiday shopping. Over a million Brits end up <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">looking at potential trips for more than three hours each week. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On a national scale, this is costing UK businesses \u00a3180 million in wages per week or \u00a39.3 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">billion annually, with 125 million working days lost on holiday planning.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Millennials are the most guilty when it comes to researching trips at work, with almost three in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">four (74%) doing so every week. In contrast, only four in 10 (40%) baby boomers and over half <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of Gen X workers (57%) get sidetracked.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When it comes to gender, male employees are more likely to get holiday distraction &#8211; 63% <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">regularly check out potential trips compared to 52% of females. Men also spend 33 minutes <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">browsing every week as opposed to 26 minutes for women, on average.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interestingly, while Australians are generally blessed with an enviable climate compared with <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the UK\u2019s, additional research from finder.com found that Aussies are more likely to plan <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">holidays at work (64% v 58%) and spend almost as twice as long (57 minutes in total) doing so.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">London is the UK region that\u2019s most distracted by potential holidays, losing 39 minutes every <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">week, perhaps due to the number of airports serving the city. This is followed by 34 minutes <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the West Midlands, while East Anglians lose the smallest amount of time at just 21 minutes <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">per week. Scottish workers are the least likely to be distracted by holiday planning with <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">almost half (46%) never browsing in the office.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To see an interactive map of who spends the most and least time researching holidays at <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">work, plus advice on how to plan holidays efficiently, visit: www.finder.com\/uk\/holiday-<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">planning-work-hours <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commenting on the research, Jon Ostler, UK CEO at finder.com, said: \u2018\u2018It\u2019s not surprising that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brits are distracted by holiday planning while at work, especially during the current <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">heatwave. We\u2019re also bombarded with beautiful holiday instagram posts everyday, which <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">doesn\u2019t help. No one wants to spend ages planning a holiday though; not to mention your <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">employer. If you want the process to be more hassle-free, then there are simple steps you <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">can take to get the best deal for the perfect holiday.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tips for holiday planning:<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Set sale alerts for the routes you\u2019re considering so you won\u2019t miss out on the best <\/span>flight prices<\/li><\/ul><ul><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Be flexible with your dates &#8211; peak times differ for different destinations so it\u2019s worth <\/span>being open to taking your holiday at a different time of year if you can<\/li><\/ul><ul><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sign up for mailing lists such as Jack\u2019s Flight Club or travelzoo, who do the deal <\/span>searching for you<\/li><\/ul><ul><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Consider taking a holiday to an unknown destination with Srprs.Me. Book a date and a <\/span>budget and turn up at the airport &#8211; they\u2019ll do the rest.<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over half (58%) of British employees plan their holidays during work hours every week, according to a new study from personal finance comparison site finder.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":385,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3788],"tags":[],"asset_tag":[],"class_list":["post-204869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.9 (Yoast SEO v24.9) - 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