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Guilty of these holiday habits? You might not be switching off after all

Tim Duggan Work columnist October 30, 2025 — 3.30pm

We’re coming to that stage of the year when you can almost smell the Christmas holidays coming up. You can now count on less than two hands the number of working weeks left until it’s time to take a deep breath.

How you spend your holidays says a lot about you, as here’s a strong correlation between your working style in the office and that outside it.

The majority of us share one thing in common, however. A Harris Poll for employment software Dayforce last year found that 60 per cent of employees do not fully disconnect from work while on our summer holidays.

But we do all take time off in different ways, a

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