‘Vacation shaming’ is nothing new. In fact, some company leaders make it a practise of not taking time-off and work long hours as a way of hinting that employees should do the same.
Encouraging workers to take time-off to reset, especially vacation, is a good way to make sure time off is used—and this, will bode well for the company’s bottom line. But frankly, any employer that expects you to work on your vacation or worst, not take vacation, isn’t one worth working for.
‘Vacation Shaming’ employees can have a negative impact on productivity, and also make it hard to retain talent. Paul Michael’s article 7 Reasons You Shouldn’t “Vacation Shame” Your Coworkers sums up why it’s bad to engage in this practice.
We selected find 5 of these ‘Vacation Shaming’ reasons from the article. They include:
1.Vacation is vital for good health: You wouldn’t want to make your coworkers physically ill, but by guilting them out of their vacation time, you could be contributing to some very serious health risks. The Framingham Heart Study, the world’s longest running study of heart disease, has some frightening statistics on vacation and health. The biggest — that men who failed to take a vacation for two years or more were 30 percent more likely to experience a heart attack than peers who took regular time off.
2. Vacation refreshes the mind and body: Research has proved it; when you take a vacation, you are improving your mind and your overall health. And if you work with people who need to be great at their jobs in order to make you and the company thrive, then you should encourage vacation time.
3. Vacation keeps good employees at the company: An unhappy employee is one that is looking for another job. A 2015 Talent Trends survey found that one out of every three employees is actively looking for a new job. That’s almost a third of the people at your company, right now, that wants out.
4. Vacation boosts organizational morale: Who wants to work in a company filled with miserable, exhausted, irritable employees? That’s what you get if you work in an environment that vacation-shames people.
5. Vacation leads to better performance reviews and higher salaries: Put this in the “strange but true” category if you like, but a 2006 study by Ernst & Young found that each additional 10 hours of vacation an employee took led to performance reviews that were 8 percent higher the following year. And, of course, higher performance reviews lead to increased salary bumps, promotions, and greater opportunities within the company.
Bottomline: We live in an always-on era and while it may be hard to unplug, it’s precisely the reason, employers should encourage their employees to take their vacation without making them feeling guilty.
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