Number of holidays and impact on productivity
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I wish we could also recognise that fact - when you work 11 - 12 hrs a day (no lunch breaks!) and a manager then asks whether you would work on a Saturday or a public holiday it makes my blood boil. I find it hard to believe that anyone can productively turn out QUALITY code for longer than 8-10 hours a day. Then again, maybe I am just thick :)
Charl wrote:
Then again, maybe I am just thick
No, that would be your manager.
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I think writer please make more study on holidays in India. Generally school peoples only have more holidays! Company people don't. Take todays example today is Gandhi Jayanti and Ramzan-ID. All Government people have Holiday but we are working. Every day we are working around Morning 9:00 Am to 10:00 Pm. Just count hours almost 9 hr actual working and 11 hr is in working evirenment. No one is giving us reward or overtime. About me in one extream condition i was working 36 hr continuesly Is it increase our holiday? Some times client from US required very urgent update he is not waiting for like Today there is Diwali in India? We have to compromise for Diwali. But exactly opposite in the occasion of Christmas, not a single client we can see online neither from Us nor from Europe. They are taking holiday from 24 Dec to 5 Jan every year. They are enjoying why we don't? But we are still working, working and working .... See our dream is to work continuesly to looking "ooh today i will work hard because next month i have holiday"! Still you say there is lot of holidays in India? See finally remember one thing 'We are working for someone else Dream'. Regards, Anish Bhagwat. India.
anish_bhagwat80 wrote:
All Government people have Holiday but we are working.
One of the benefits of the new job I will be starting, which is a government job :-D
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:
But my only concern is that whether people really make a constructive use of their holidays.
Isn't a holiday meant to take a break from constructive things? Give us a break man. Evidently you're saying that productivity should be our new religion? I for one think that our work-so-much-for-productivity-sakes culture is way out of hand. I value leisure much more than work. I work so that I can afford leisure. And the most productive use of my time could be doing nothing at all. To simply be here now and not produce. Please, I beseech you, leave the concept of productivity and constructive use, out of the holiday paradigm. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!! In other words Jack- how dare you say that I have to be productive when taking a break from productivity! :mad:
I've heard more said about less.
Right on brother... I get about 8 or 9 holidays and 5 weeks of paid time off... and you better believe I'm taking every single one of those days off. :cool:
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Check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holidays_in_India[^] As a secular democratic republic, I think, the state should only support holidays that is applicable to all people.
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All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts... --William Shakespeare[quote] As a secular democratic republic, I think, the state should only support holidays that is applicable to all people. [/quote] No as a secular democratic republic, I think, state should support [b]all[/b] holidays that is applicable to anyone. And neverthless, if you wanna work nobody could stop you. If you think holidays are unnecessary and slow you down do your office work in your home also. :laugh:
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I just felt whether the number of holidays that a state imposes in the region (in our country) should be considered significantly. From my current stay in US, when I observe that the holidays in India need to be really revised and rationalized. Most of the other countries have genuine set of holidays and a controlled number. I was just feeling down about for a few reasons: 1) Too much of holidays is actually disturbing the normal plan of work, in any sphere (particularly when it involves deliverable across the geographical boundaries). 2) The youth normally, during holidays, immediately resort to boozing and other stuff which are detrimental to good health. At least if it is a work-day, then they would refrain from such right? What do you say? A day or two extended holiday set is allowed but too much of holidays is actually, I feel, is playing down on multiple fronts. I really feel, we should consider 'Holidays as 'Holi days' ' and make them constructive. How about holidays and people attitude in other places?
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All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts... --William ShakespeareSounds like somebody has failed to properly manage projects and resources. At the start of every financial year and with every new project you know what resources you have and the term you have them for, try planning to use them properly.