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Too anxious to take a vacation? An expert insists stepping away can actually improve your business--if you do it right. Vacations: We all know we should take them for our mental health and the health of our relationships, but many entrepreneurs stress that stepping away from work responsibilities will harm their businesses and land them with a painful backlog of tasks upon their return.

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Tired of success stories? Every Friday on Inc.com we bring you epic tales of failure and shame. This week: senseless workplace policies

By tossing the two-week standard in favor of an honor system with unlimited time off, some companies are seeing an exponential rise in productivity. Now, they just have to be mindful of staff burnout

I've learned so much from my own wanderlust that I decided to pass it on to my employees: Everyone gets a free one-month trip every five years. Here's why

We all want more time. But how do you get it

It's no secret that great people build great companies, so it's baffling that more companies don't treat recruiting as the most important job. A five-piece mariachi band, a cake with a hidden message, and more food than you'd believe, were all delivered to our office—resume in tow—in an attempt to help an applicant stand out from the other 2,000 monthly hopefuls who apply for a job here

That might be a good thing. Here's why.

Part of the reason we go on vacation is to feel refreshed when we get back, right? That's why the laptop and iPhone come with me

The 34-year-old founder of this travel company is peddling the kind of getaway packages you might only dream of. Except many of them are discounted--in price, not service.

Entrepreneur Eileen P. Gunn writes about taking time off from her new family travel website to go to Germany with, you guessed it, her family. It’s just before 8:00 in the morning on the 13th day of a 19-day vacation

A look at whos taking vacation days, the greatest office pet peeves, what drives e-commerce sales, and other intriguing statistics time off Average number of vacation days employees receive annually: Portion of Americans who typically don't use all of their vacation days: 34% Average number of vacation days per U.S. employee that go unused: 3 Expedia e-commerce Amount spent shopping online in the first quarter of 2011: $38 billion (up 12 percent from the previous year) Share of online orders that include free shipping: 47% Portion of customers who say they are at least somewhat likely to cancel their order if free shipping isn't offered: 61% ComScore pet peeves Employee personal habits that business owners find most annoying: Manta office supplies Amount of paper used in U.S.

The July 4th weekend is just behind us and I spent a good part of last week thinking about summer and how my expectation for work-free vacations might or might not be about to disappear with the launch of FamiliesGo!. Back when I had a staff job at a major business magazine I had an editor who asked me to miss an evening flight that would start my annual vacation to do an eleventh-hour revise on a story. Now, he'd known about my trip for well over a month and I'd filed this story several weeks earlier

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