Almost 9 out of 10 UK workers fail to take annual holiday

Failing to use all of their annual holiday entitlement, industrious Brits are losing out on 10 days of annual leave each year, and over £650 in pay.

Nearly nine out of ten British workers failed to take all of their holiday allowance last year and a further one in twenty missed out on over ten days of paid leave, according to a survey conducted by Voucherbox.co.uk.

Excuses given for not taking entitled holidays included 43% who said they were too busy, one in ten said their holiday requests were denied by their boss.

Over a third of could not carry their remaining holiday days over to the following year or receive remuneration from employers eventuating in 35% being out of pocket by £674.60 on average a year.