In some countries employees are generally given two weeks of paid vacation time each year. In other countries employers are given four or six weeks of paid vacation time. Considering the need of both employee and employer, what do you think is a reasonable amount of paid vacation time for employees to have? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience

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Depending on the countries
labor
a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
labour
law and other regulations, some countries provide employees with
two
weeks of annual paid leave whereas others grant
four
to
six
weeks. In my opinion,
two
weeks of paid annual
vacation
is
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are
a good
amount
to be offered from both employers and
employees
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employee's
employee
perspective
. From
employees’
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the employees’ perspective
perspective
, sufficient
amount
of
vacation
is required to maintain
work
life balance. The working environment is quite stressful
in
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at
present time
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the present time
and often lead to exhaustion among workers.
For instance
, in Japan death related to
work
stress is so high that it is considered to be a serious social problem. A moderate
amount
of break from
work
, which is
two
weeks, could be really useful to avoid
such
instance. Some may argue that, there are weekly holidays to relieve stress.
However
, weekly holidays are not enough
as
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at
the time is very limited and doesn’t give you to chance to engage in any travel related activities.
Again taking
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Again, taking
long time
vacation
like
four
to
six
weeks is not often useful from
employees’
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the employees’ perspective
perspective
also
. Being absent from
office longer period
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the office longer period
not only will increase job
pressure but
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pressure, but
also
will hamper
natural
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the natural work flow
work
flow when he/she returns from
vacation
.
On the other
hand from
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hand, from
employers’
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the employers’ perspective
perspective
,
two
weeks paid annual
vacation
seems to be practical.
This
minimum level of
vacation
will
reenergize
cause to be alert and energetic
energize
the
employee
and increase job satisfaction. A satisfied, stress free worker is an indispensable requirement for an
organizations
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organization
to maximize their profit level.
Besides
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Besides, instead
instead
of
four
weeks to
six
weeks
vacation
, allowing
two
weeks’
vacation
will
also
prove to be functional for companies in terms of cost effectiveness. An
employee
takes on
vacation but
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vacation, but
in most cases his works doesn’t. In many cases, companies have to hire temporary workers to cover the
work
of
employee
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an employee
the employee
who is on holiday. The longer the
vacation
, the higher the cost, and the greater the disruption of normal office works. In conclusion, the
amount
of allowable
vacation whether
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vacation, whether
it is
two
week
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weeks
,
four
weeks or
six
weeks largely depends
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weeks, largely depend
weeks largely depend
on that country regulation
also
individual organizations management and policies. Having said
this
, a
two
week of minimum
vacation
considering both employer and
employee
perspective
is practical in current times.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • work-life balance
  • employee well-being
  • productivity
  • loyalty
  • creativity
  • problem-solving abilities
  • cultural norms
  • expectations
  • attract
  • retain
  • competitive job markets
  • minimum vacation time
  • policies
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