Workers go on holiday stressed, tired and broke, study finds

STRESSED, overworked and broke — and that’s just during the holidays.

Irish employees might dream of their two-week summer break all year but a significant proportion find that getting away from it all is not as easy or as fun as they had hoped.

One in four workers say they do two weeks work in one in order to clear their desks in the run-up to their holidays, half spend the first few days of their precious break feeling as tense as if they had never left the office and two-thirds of those with children find the cost a serious burden.