Why Vacations Are Important For Your Team
Vacations are necessary for the worker, and even for the health of the company. A worker’s routine includes several activities that, although they may seem typical of their role or simple (calls, meetings, evaluations), can take their toll if they fail to effectively disconnect once work hours are over.
Weekends provide a space to take a break, take time to disconnect and rest, clear the mind and return to work with recharged energy. However, 2 days a week are not enough to sustain a year of work and the human resources department knows this. A worker with job burnout, no matter how talented he or she may be, will not be able to give us his or her best ideas or his or her best performance if he or she does not have time to rest as a vital part of his or her routine.
There are studies that show that reduced hours, flexible hours and annual vacations result in motivated, energetic workers willing to give their best performance for the project.Here we are going to give you several reasons why vacations are important for your team.
1. Improves Work Performance
It is not only important how much time you take off, but what you do with it. Travelling, for example, recharges your energy and stimulates your creativity, which allows you to return to your duties with clear ideas and higher motivation.
2. Reduces Stress Levels
When you have specific days off outside of the weekends, the process of mental disconnection and rest is much easier. Being in an environment away from work allows day-to-day problems to be observed objectively and addressed effectively.
3. Reduces The Risk Of Depression
Having time to do leisure activities allows you to relax your mind, find the calm that escapes during daily work days and take time to rest without incurring guilt or remorse for work not done. Work overload and little free time are factors that affect the crisis of depression and the deterioration will be noticeable if vacations are not assumed as an important factor in work performance.
4. Increase Productivity
On the internal performance side of the company, vacations also translate into an increase in productivity on the part of employees. A rested, clear-headed and mentally fresh worker is ready to use his problem-solving skills and the execution of his role.
Encourage Rest In Your Team
It is essential that the vacation period to which each worker is entitled is respected and enforced. The human resources department must encourage all members of the team to request their vacations with sufficient advance notice, so that not only can they take the days without obstructions, but their absence does not affect the rest of the team, which should be able to function in the same way while one of the members rests. (SG)