Who has time for vacation?

Thirty-seven percent of U.S. workers say they will not use all their earned vacation days this year, according to a survey last month of nearly 2,000 full-time employees.

The same survey, by the staffing company Hudson Highland Group, found that 24 percent of surveyed workers had taken no vacation days this year, and 14 percent had taken no more than an occasional long weekend off.

Even those who took vacations had a hard time getting away: 72 percent of those surveyed said they kept in touch via phone or e-mail, including 39 percent who said they checked in most or every workday of their vacation.

MILLION-DOLLAR JOBS: Good news for top executives: They received 31.2 percent more total cash compensation this year -- and a 48.2 percent average increase in their annual cash bonuses.

That's according to the November 2006 Executive Compensation Index released by the Economic Research Institute and The Wall Street Journal's CareerJournal.com.

The index tracks 45 randomly selected, publicly traded companies. It reported the total average cash compensation in 2006 for top executives was $4,795,096 -- a 31.2 percent increase since 2005.

That's despite the fact that the average base salary for those same executives actually dropped from 2005 to 2006 -- from $1,277,944 to $1,273,978.