If you run your own business you might think of time off as the enemy. Especially paid time off. How are you expected to make money if your workers aren’t working every single minute of every single work day? Especially millennials who keep asking to be treated like real employees when they’re barely old enough to shave or take care of themselves?
It might sound counterproductive, but recent studies have indicated that giving your employees regular holidays and time off, especially five work days off in a row, might dramatically increase their productivity. This may be a sneaky trick perpetrated by devious employees, but consider for a moment what it could mean if this were true!
Perhaps sick workers, especially those with high levels of contact with the public, might stay at home, thus preventing illnesses to spread to your other employees and allowing them to recuperate faster!
Additionally, paid time off is often one of those things that many workers, including “millennials” rank highly when they evaluate new job opportunities, especially young parents. Apparently they like it when vacation, sick time, and personal days are combined into a single “bank” of benefits that they can use at will. Without a time off policy, companies may be at a disadvantage when competing with larger firms for employees.
There’s one more reason to provide vacations to your minions. If your company relies on a small group of trusted employees to manage critical functions, you may become vulnerable to certain kinds of fraud. One of the best ways to protect yourself is to require workers to take extended vacations so that other workers can fill in the functions and learn what their co-workers do, and where there might be issues of oversight that need further internal controls.
So, assuming that those researchers and the treacherous employees that they studied haven’t bollixed things up, there may be benefits to giving employees paid time off! How utterly amusing! Perhaps the professionals at Tardy & Co., PC could offer more suggestions on employee benefit issues too, if they were to be contacted?
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