As the footsteps of spring fade away, the overture of summer has quietly sounded. In this wonderful season, we have ushered in a happy news - the holiday arrangements for Labor Day 2024 have been released!
According to the notice, we will be looking forward to a five-day holiday from May 1 (Wednesday) to May 5 (Sunday) to spend quality time with family and friends. Of course, in order to keep the total number of working days the same, we need to make up the shifts on Sunday, April 28 and Saturday, May 11.
Recently, the wave of opposition to compensatory holidays on the Internet has been surging like a tide, and people have said that such vacation arrangements not only disrupt the rhythm of life, but also make the long-awaited vacation unworthy of the name. Taking "May Day" as an example, it seems that there will be a five-day long holiday, but after deducting weekends and compensatory holidays, the actual increase in rest time is only one day, and such an arrangement cannot help but make people sigh: What is the true face of the holiday? In fact, the patchwork of long holiday "illusions" has lowered the public's sense of happiness and caused more and more dissatisfaction.
Looking back on the whole year, it seems that there are several long holidays waiting for us, but after careful calculation, excluding weekends and compensatory holidays, the actual increase in vacation days is only 11 days, which is far from people's expectations and expectations for holidays. We can't help but ask, is this kind of vacation arrangement really in line with people's needs and expectations?
In fact, the compensatory leave policy seems to have become a double-edged sword, on the one hand, it provides us with more rest time, but on the other hand, it also allows us to enjoy the holiday at the same time, but also pay the price of disrupting the rhythm of life and affecting work efficiency. What we are looking forward to is a vacation arrangement that can rest both physically and mentally without affecting normal life, rather than this seemingly beautiful but actually chicken leave policy.
Perhaps, we should revisit and adjust the vacation policy, so that the holiday can truly return to its essence and become a good time for us to relax and enjoy life. Instead of being in the whirlpool of the holiday, exhausted, losing the true meaning of the holiday.