People doing different kinds of work enjoy different amount of holiday time. Should people have the same amount of leisure time? Discuss.

People doing different kinds of work enjoy different amount of holiday time. Should people have the same amount of leisure time? Discuss.

 

Ielts Essay- Work and Holidays 

The busy schedules at work have made it highly necessary for the people to take time off from work, as doing this can bring in numerous benefits for physical and mental well being of employees, but there is a continuous debate over the tenure and period of the time off different categories of employees should take or be allowed.

Taking holidays as per the ranks and positions is sometimes considered to be an essential component of human resources management system. As per HR policies of various companies, the people working in locations that need intense involvement at work deserve to be compensated with suitable leisure time offs spans accordingly, since working on tough and diverse assignments can be taxing, and this also sometimes leads employees, in question, to socially disconnect from rest of society for the sake of job. Proper rejuvenation for such personnel can help in enhancing their productivity. Whereas, the people who perform general duties or are involved in less taxing work can get appropriate amount of relaxation even with shorter tenures.

However, such policies often court deep controversy as they symbolize ambiguity. Such provisions often lead to discord and uneasy situations at the work place because of disagreements between the top, middle and lower level managers; and workers at lower rungs, because managers at different levels of organizational hierarchy find it hard to convince their juniors over disproportionate allocation of leisure time to different individuals.  Besides this, provisions of taking and allowing uneven holiday privileges often leads to jealousy among the coworkers and colleagues as the ones getting lesser amount of leisure time-offs often start harboring ill feelings for their coworkers.

To sum up, I personally feel that tenure leisure time should surely be different for different levels of personnel: both face differing levels of scope of obligations and stress, and thus, must be compensated accordingly.