While the hullabaloo surrounding Cameron, Osborne and Clegg's synchronised sabbaticals continues apace, a debate on whether employees should make themselves contactable during annual leave has been ignited by new research from Virgin Atlantic.
According to data released today, a quarter of Britain's bosses think it is acceptable to ring employees while they are on holiday and discuss work-related matters.
The study, which polled 2,000 members of Britain's workforce, also discovered that staff journeying to far-flung corners of the globe are significantly less likely to receive that dreaded phone call, email or text.
One in three bosses are bullish in their assertion that staff should expect to be called whilst on holiday if they have failed to tie things up properly before jetting off. The OBR's insistence that Osborne will fall considerably short of his 1.7 per cent yearly growth target could be considered a fairly major loose end - thankfully his boss was too busy sunning it up in Tuscany to notice.
It also emerged that one in ten execs think employees should be open to receiving calls when on annual leave if the company has provided them with a phone and paid the bill.
Greg Dawson, Director of Corporate Communications for Virgin Atlantic said: "Most people hate being disturbed whilst on holiday.
''If you are on the beach or by the pool relaxing with your friends and family and your boss rings it can fill you with dread.
''Whether you are contactable on holiday depends hugely on your job and your role within the company. This poll has revealed that the further away you tend to travel the least likely you are to get harassed by irate managers, so it pays to venture far afield."
Four in ten managers say they are much more likely to ring an employee if they have not travelled too far away - this is where matters get geographically specific.
Workers are most likely to receive occupational harassment if they visit Devon, The Lake District and Cornwall, whereas few bosses would disturb a holiday in New Zealand, The Caribbean or Thailand.
A brutal 14 per cent of old-school execs have even telephoned a staff member to reprimand them whilst they are away on annual leave.
Nearly a quarter of employees (23 per cent) take a dim view of these interventions, conceding they don't get paid enough to have their holiday disturbed by their boss, while 32 per cent steadfastly refuse to let work take over their holiday.
20 per cent of workers already anticipate calls whilst on holiday, but still find it vexing.
Moreover, during a typical two week holiday, the average adult sends nine work related texts or emails.
A more relaxed one in five employees said it didn't affect their holiday fun when they received calls from the office, though more than half confessed to screening calls from the boss while lying on sandy beaches.
Greg Dawson added: ''Using mobile phones is such a huge part of everyday life and many of us conduct the majority of work via our phones, so it is hard to break that cycle when we are on holiday.
''If you continually check-in with the office, you will never fully relax and make the most of your holiday.''
Checking in a little earlier on nationwide rioting wouldn't have gone amiss, however.