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Some people think that employers ought to give their

employees

more days off to encourage them to perform better. In my opinion, I disagree with

this

statement as

this

will affect both productivity and the company’s income. Admittedly,

employees

require

holidays

to charge up and get back to work with full energy.

However

, extra-long

holidays

can have an adverse effect on the employee’s performance and

hence

I don’t support them. To be more specific, the productivity of

employees

will be negatively impacted because taking long

holidays

will cause the work to pile up on their desks, and

this

will lead to unnecessarily delayed responses.

For instance

, according to research done by TAG Business Consultancy Group,

employees

who take longer

holidays

have 40% lower productivity as opposed to the ones who take standard length

holidays

. Another downside caused by too many days off is the direct impact on the firm’s income.

This

is because many firms depend directly on their

employees

as their main source of income, especially service-providing organizations. Not to mention that extra business can be gained when more staff, particularly customer-facing, are on duty.

For example

, EY Legal firm has cut 50% of its

holidays

in 2018 and compensated its staff with 20% raise,

in other words

, the company found out that lower

holidays

mean more money for them and

consequently

for their

employees

. While I don’t support cutting down breaks, I totally stand behind not giving too many of them. In conclusion,

although

some people think that too many days off can improve the performance of staff, I personally think that

this

might lead to spoiling them which could be detrimental to the company’s performance.