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Why Taking that Vacation Can Lead to a Better Workplace
Do you love your vacations? Are they relaxing, fun and entertaining? There are many reasons why a vacation can
enrich your life and fulfill you with joy and happiness. But many of these reasons actually can also be directly
translated into reasons for why taking that vacation can lead to a better workplace for you, your boss and other
employees.
Vacations are as essential to a hard working employee as a parachute to a person jumping from an airplane with the
goal to land safely. Many employers would love to minimize the time you are gone from your workplace because they
think the more time you spend there, the more work you will accomplish. This argument is right up to a certain
amount of hours and days a months or a year, but whenever your body starts to get tired and exhausted, the amount
of work that you produce decreases. The quality of your work starts to decline as well.
Time off work, time together with your family, time to relax, time to regenerate and time to just plain have fun
are very important in an employees life. Taking a vacation has many benefits to the employee, but also to the
company you work for. The more relaxed and happy your worker starts a workday or the workweek; the better will most
likely be his or her performances at work. Research has shown that relaxation and regeneration are essential to
human bodies.
Did you know that in some companies in Europe and Asia, the emphasis on relaxation goes so far that meditation,
morning sport and a short power nap belong to their required parts of a work day?
The United States is actually one of the only industrialized countries that does not mandate a minimum of vacation
days that the worker has to take off. In fact, in many countries in Europe, a minimum of 20 and more days is the
norm.
Since the late 1970s, the average middle income family works in total hours three and more months a year more then
they did back then and according to a research done by Boston College, approximately 25% of Americans do not take a
vacation at all. After all these facts are slowly emerging from mounts of collected date, some of the bigger
American companies have actually begun to realize that off-time and vacation are essential to prevent mishaps and
screwed up designs and products.
If you are not taking your vacation or your employers does not allow for any vacation, a series of health hazards
such as stress and high stress, sleeplessness, burnout, heart attacks and even more serious health conditions can
occur.
Another big factor in working too much, working overtime or never having vacation can be problems and loss of
family and friends. Problems with families and friends will directly impact performance at work and even though the
employee might not talk about it at work or might b e holding back his or her feelings, the mood and general
behavior of the employee will have an impact ion his work and other employees.
Every employee should value the vacation time given to him or her and employers should grant the time asked for to
their employees. Vacation is essential to the performance at work and the quality in products the company can
deliver.
Following the examples that are set by many European countries, the US should give their employees the time they
need and also make sure that their employees do take the time off to be a better employee overall. Vacation is fun,
relaxing and regenerating.
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