When employees are overworked and stressed, it impacts your company’s productivity… and not in the good way. Too much pressure can lead to lower quality of work, negative team morale, increased absences from sickness and even turnover.

A key way to keep your employees happy and healthy is to encourage vacations. Vacations allow individuals to take a break, re-energize and come back with a fresh new set of ideas. Don’t just allot your workforce time off – emphasize that your employees need to use their vacation time. Here are some important points to consider:

• A survey by Right Management found that 66% of polled employees didn’t use all of their paid vacation days.
  
  
• A CCH Human Resources Management study reported that nearly 40% of workers “feel more productive and better about their job” and more than 50% of employees feel more “rested, rejuvenated and reconnected to their personal life” when returning from vacation.
  
  
• The same study reported that nearly 20% of workers have canceled or postponed a vacation because of their job.
  
  
• GoHealthInsurance.com reported a 200% improvement in productivity when allowing unlimited vacation time for employees; HubSpot has been ranked the #2 fastest growing software company on the Inc. 500 since allowing an unlimited vacation time policy.
  
  
• Gallop reports that on-the-job stress is the top reason for employee dissatisfaction in the American workforce with 35% reporting that “the source of this stress is their job interfering with their family or personal time”.

While your employee is gone on vacation, using temporary workers can ensure that your business needs are still being addressed. Sustaining your company’s workload while your star players get some well-deserved time off is a win-win situation.

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