CREDIT: Shutterstock No worker in the United States is guaranteed paid time off, be it for vacation, holidays, illness, or a new child. But even those lucky enough to get the benefit from their employer don’t make use of it. Forty-one percent of American workers who get paid time off as part of their compensation aren’t planning to use all of it this year, according to a survey from GfK Public Affairs and Corporate Communications for the U.S.