No Go Annual Holidays
Posted on 18 March 2010 by LynThomas in Promotion, Travel
A recent TNS Domestic study has shown that subconsciously bosses discourage workers to take holidays, according to travel researcher, Carolyn Childs.
“The very people telling you to use up your leave are often the people who have the most significant amount of leave accrued,” said Childs. Senior management does not practice what they preach and thus send a mixed message, by their own bad example.
“Australia was one of the few countries in the OECD that allowed workers to accrue annual leave, but by OECD standards our leave proportion was low and our provision of sick, parental or carers’ leave was not generous,” Childs said. While Australia only permits four weeks annual leave, in the UK people begin with four weeks in their first job and work their way up to five or six weeks leave. However they are limited in the amount they are allowed to carry forward.
As companies struggle to survive the global financial crisis, many workers find they are stretched to their limits and taking time off puts extra pressure on co-workers. “For many of us our colleagues are one of our major sources of friends these days and you don’t really want to be dumping on them and you know you’re going to have hundreds of emails when you return to work,” Childs said.
The study also found that one in 10 workers said they accrued their leave because they found they could not get the same time period off as their partner.
An alternative to taking the full annual leave maybe to take shorter breaks more often, such as extended weekend breaks. A five day break in places such as the tropical islands of Vanuatu, in the South Pacific, can give you the feeling of having travelled to a totally different culture, had some quality R and R and not taken too long away from the office.
There are some really great deals for Easter still available, particularly through some of the last minute booking engines, or sites such as vanuatu-hotels.vu.
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