Author : Dale Collie
Employees truly deserve paid vacations. Theystruggle through stressful jobs most of the year,and productivity goes down if they don't get abreak. From a corporate perspective, investment ingood vacation programs reduces workplace stressabsenteeism, health care costs, and accidents.Many employees, however, come back from vacationwith the half-joking remark about having to returnto work to rest up. Far too many people findvacations just as stressful as the jobs they doevery day.Following are fourteen ways company managers cande-stress vacations, increase productivity, improvequality, boost profits, and get the most from thecorporate investment.1. Develop vacation savings plans so employeeswill be financially prepared for this big expense2. Provide continuous counseling for personalfinances, budgeting, and credit issues3. Double check for payroll errors to make sureemployees are not affected by discrepancies whilethey are on vacation4. Distribute job responsibilities to preventemployees' returning to overflowing in-boxes5. Announce job changes after vacations, notbefore6. Provide in-house workshops on vacationplanning7. Negotiate corporate discounts with travelagencies8. Show employees how to research travel planson internet9. On the last day before vacation, giveemployees an extra half-day off for last minutepreparations. This strategy brings value to thecompany through motivation, esprit, and qualitycontrol.10. Coach employees to get major projects out ofthe way two weeks before vacations to preventstressful, sometimes inadequate, last-minuteefforts12. Ask for destination contact information forpurpose of emergency notification and then use theinfo to send a special note or small gift thatwill be waiting for them upon arrival.11. Demonstrate your interest by scheduling timeto visit with employees about their greatadventure - before and after vacation13. Get employee input on vacation schedules tomake sure dates work out with spouse's schedule14. Encourage a more restful week-long vacationinstead of a less rewarding one or two day absenceThere you have it - fourteen ways to de-stressvacations. Your company gets its money's worthout of these vacations when employees are restedand ready to get back to work.For more info on controlling workplace stress sendan email to: 3sessionstress@sendfree.comDale Collie - professional speaker, former
US Army Ranger, CEO, and a Fast Company top
50 innovative leader. Author of "Winning
Under Fire." (McGraw-Hill) collie@couragebuilders.com
Keyword : vacation, workplace, stress
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