Survey: Gen Z may be quiet-vacationing because of loud vacation anxiety

A new survey by Babbel.com indicates Gen Z and millennials are taking sneaky days off for reasons that you might not expect.

Welcome to the epicenter of summer—peak travel season. Other than that lovely timeless void between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, it’s the part of the year you’re most likely to be inundated with out-of-office emails. For younger workers, however, it’s lately become more popular to leave that particular auto-reply off and instead slip away for a day or two undetected—also known as “quiet vacationing.”