Vacationing on the Cheap… – Chicago Tribune

When your company tells you to take a week off, unpaid, you can moan and fret. Or you can do what some employees of the Gannett media chain have done and make the most of it. #

Facing a second one-week “furlough” this year, “it came to our mind that we have 85 newspapers and 23 broadcast stations, and everyone is going to be in the same situation,” said Laura Cochran, a content manager at Gannett Digital in Arlington, Va. #

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