"More than 60 percent of full-time Australian workers do not use their full annual leave entitlement in a year and more than one third of full time workers do not take any annual leave in a year at all."3

UNPRECEDENTED LEVELS OF UNPAID LEAVE^

  • Australia has 123 million days of accrued annual leave by full-time employees. This equates to $33.3 billion in wages as of December 2008
  • Annual leave accrual by full-time employees has grown by 11% from December 2006 to December 2008
  • 1 in 4 of Australian full-time employees are leave stockpilers.

THE GROWTH OF THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS CULTURE*

  • 73% of stockpilers consider work/life balance (WLB) an important aspect of their life
  • Female stockpilers place greater importance on WLB [80%] compared to males [69%]
  • 70% of stockpilers agree that annual leave positively impacts work/life balance (WLB) (Stronger amongst females (78%) than males (67%))
  • Stockpilers' strongest perceived benefits of annual leave are passive in nature (Relaxation (75%), quality time with family and friends (73%) long term health (69%).

^ Source: Roy Morgan Research
*(Source: No Leave, No Life Research, 2009)