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"The Dragon Boat Festival is a 5-day holiday! The Dragon Boat Festival holiday is 5 days!"
This is the sound of many people cheering and applauding on the Internet a few days ago.
However, in the midst of this cheer, there were also people in the comment section who made a "What's going on?" How do you put the Dragon Boat Festival for 5 days?" The sound of doubt.
They said, "Is it a holiday or not, and is there still anyone going to work?"
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the State Council to officially announce this year's Dragon Boat Festival holiday arrangement, with a 3-day holiday, no holiday, from June 25th to 27th, and normal work on June 28.
1. Thoughts triggered by "splitting up holidays".
With the notice of the holiday, the comment area also fell instantly, on the one hand, it was a complaint about the holiday arrangement, some people said: "The holiday is good, but the three days are a little shorter, and people have not eased up, and they have to go to work!"
Some people also said: "I just don't have a holiday, so three days, it's better to go to work directly!"
However, on the other hand, there are also people who are immersed in the joy of this "unexpected good news", and they have sighed: "This is a great thing, there is no need to take a holiday, and there is no need to worry about being taken off on the weekend, it is really good news!"
For a while, the comment area was dissatisfied with this holiday arrangement on the one hand, and joy at this holiday arrangement on the other hand, how did this "polarization" happen?
In fact, all this is because the arrangement of holidays is becoming more and more fixed, so that people have developed the mindset of accepting "this must be the reason for splitting the holiday" and "this must be the result of the holiday".
But how does this mindset come about?
The reason is that once there is a split holiday, then this split vacation situation is likely to become a formula, and this pattern is likely to affect people's lives.
How did this split vacation situation come about?
In fact, at the earliest, there were not so many rules for holidays, and the government would arrange some "compensatory holidays" for everyone at the appropriate time, that is, the weekend of the festival or anniversary was transferred to a working day, and then the day before or after the festival or anniversary day was given to everyone as a holiday.
However, this method of "adjusting the weekend" has caused controversy in some places, because if the weekend is changed to a working day every time it is time to leave, then many people will not be able to rest at home.
Therefore, the government came up with a practice of "splitting" some holidays, which is also to take care of some people, because these people do not have regular vacations, so the government splits the holidays into two parts, one is "fixed" on the day before or after the holiday, and the other is "extended" to the weekend, so that not only people who do not have regular holidays can take vacations at a fixed time, but also people who have frequent vacations can take vacations on weekends, so as to take care of different groups of people.
However, this way of splitting the holiday will also cause some problems, the main one is that the "split holiday" will cause people to "this must be a compensatory holiday" and "this must be a split holiday" two mindsets, therefore, in order to prevent the two mindsets from affecting people's lives, it is necessary to try to avoid using the "split holiday" way.
Second, different holiday arrangements will trigger different effects.
Since 2019, the State Council has been trying to avoid the use of "split holidays", so it will lead to a 4-day holiday for the Dragon Boat Festival in some years and a 5-day holiday for the Dragon Boat Festival in some years.
In 2020, the Dragon Boat Festival happened to be a Saturday, so there was only one day off, and this year, the Dragon Boat Festival happened to be a Saturday, so there was a three-day holiday.
Under this kind of holiday arrangement, it will cause some people to be dissatisfied, and some people even make a voice of "it's better not to have a holiday at all".
In fact, behind this voice, people's real demands are nothing more than two:
One is hoping to have more time to rest, and the other is hoping that life can get back on track as soon as possible and not change back and forth.
So, what do we do about these two different demands?
In fact, the former demand, that is, the hope to have more rest time, can be satisfied through holidays, but the latter appeal has to be considered from the way of holiday arrangements.
Because today's holiday arrangement method not only "splits the holiday" will cause people's dissatisfaction, but also will cause confusion in people's work and rest time, because many people are used to the rhythm of two days off and one day off on the weekend, so once the rhythm is changed because of the holiday, it will make people feel very uncomfortable, and even lead to the view that "it is better not to take a holiday".
On the other hand, if the way of vacation becomes "compensatory holiday", it will make people feel very dissatisfied and tired, because "compensatory holiday" will only make people feel that time is occupied, therefore, this "compensatory holiday" method will to a certain extent lead to the view that "it is better not to take a holiday".
Therefore, it is necessary to ensure that people's holidays are not affected too much, so it is necessary to consider making the way of holidays more flexible and humane, so that both demands can be met at the same time.
Third, it is recommended that the holiday is more flexible and humane.
Therefore, is there a more flexible and humane way to take a holiday?
In fact, there is also a way to do this, and that is "flexible vacation".
This "flexible leave" system allows employees to arrange their own vacation time according to their own needs, but this system is not without its drawbacks, because if the flexible leave is too long, it will affect people's productivity, so it is necessary to pay attention to this when formulating a flexible leave system.
Of course, in addition to making the way of vacation more flexible and humane, it is also necessary to make the way of vacation more stable, so how to make the way of vacation more stable?
What can be done?
In fact, the easiest way is to make the vacation plan more stable, this plan can be a long-term plan, or a short-term plan, of course, the long-term plan is better than the short-term plan, because the long-term plan can give people more time to adapt, and the short-term plan will make people's life rhythm very chaotic.
However, the frequent adjustment of holiday schedules is very serious, so it is necessary to publicize this long-term stability plan in advance, so that people have enough time to adapt, and at the same time, people can better plan their lives and work.
epilogue
Today's holiday system will not only meet people's needs for rest, but also cause some dissatisfaction, so we need to find a balance between "more flexible and humane holidays" and "more stable holidays".
In the development of holiday methods, it is also necessary to strengthen the scientific research on holiday arrangements, so as to be able to develop a more reasonable holiday method, and at the same time, it is also necessary to formulate a more flexible holiday policy, so that more individualized adjustments can be allowed to take care of the needs of different groups of people, so as to ensure that people's rest needs are met.