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Happy holidays

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The television nowadays appears to portray holidays in one of two very different guises: holidays in paradise and holidays from hell. This may be because there are a surprising number of people who do not like, or perhaps do not dare, to take their annual holiday entitlement. Holidays for them are punishment not reward, frustrating not fun, exhausting not refreshing.

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© 2005 Adrian Furnham

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Furnham, A. (2005). Happy holidays. In: The People Business. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510098_30

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