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ESL / EFL Cloze Activity on Stress by Sean Banville

A new report reveals that on summer holiday may be more stressful than working. The , by the UK’s Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM), questioned 2,500 of its members about towards long summer breaks. It found forty per cent of managers do not come back from a holiday relaxed. A worrying was that many workers came back from a holiday more stressed than when they . Many in lower- and upper-management positions actually work they are on vacation. The researchers discovered that 80 per cent of those answer work-related e-mails, around 50 per cent make and business-related phone calls and 10 per cent go into the office. Over 90 per cent of managers worried about to hundreds of e-mails.

Information technology and the global economy are the main causes of managers being to de-stress while on holiday. Penny de Valk, chief executive of the ILM, said: "Gone are the when people cut off contact with work for a over the summer and made a complete . While technology means that it is easier than ever to work , it also makes it extremely hard to off. Uncertain economic times also mean that many UK employers are keeping one on their job at all times, when what they really need is time away from the office to rest and re-energise.” The study also revealed that on , it takes two days and seventeen hours into a holiday to totally . Ten per cent of managers said it took them up to a week to fully get into holiday mode.