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3.0 The importance and benefits of going on vacation.
Remember summer holidays as a kid? Being released from school and seeing nothing but weeks of
freedom, sunshine and sandy sandwiches lying ahead? It’s easy to forget that feeling as a working adult
when heavy workloads and stress threaten to eat into our precious vacation days. Most people are
owed a minimum number of vacation days a year but a lot of us don’t take them. In the US in 2014, for
example, workers only took 51% of the small number of vacation days they were allowed and 15% of
People took no time off at all [1]. Many said that they were worried about falling behind in their work
while others worried that they would lose their edge on the competition for promotions. But this
reasoning may be flawed. Research shows that not only are vacations good for you but that they may
also increase productivity meaning they’re good for the workplace and for your career as well. Here
we’ve listed some of the benefits of taking a break for both you and your work
Vacations make you happier.
Yes it may be an obvious one but it can be easy to forget in the face of a heavy workload when going on
a vacation seems like another task on the to-do list. Research has found that after taking a vacation
workers are less tense and stressed, they are more likely to be in a good mood and to have higher levels
of energy. Better yet, people who come back from vacation are more satisfied with their lives in general
when they return. Doesn’t a calmer, energized, happier you or a more satisfied, de-stressed employee
sound like a good outcome?