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\"vacation<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Vacation Means Better Business!<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

The sound of birds early in the morning, long warm nights and the smell of food on the grill can only mean one thing; it’s summer time!\u00a0 Remember how relaxing summer used to be? Remember when you used to take vacation? Have you thought about taking some time off this summer? As a leader, you\u2019re probably asking yourself, \u201cWith all that\u2019s going on in business, how can I find time for vacation?\u201d Well, actually you can\u2019t not <\/em>take time off!<\/p>\n

Americans take less time off than any developed nation in the world (working 9 weeks longer per year) and they have the highest rate of depression.\u00a0 According to one World Health Organization & Harvard study, overwork is correlated with obesity, heart disease, insomnia and fatigue. We are the only industrialized nation without mandatory paid leave. \u201cGreat in theory\u201d, you say, \u201cbut we need to get work done, we can\u2019t afford to take time off!\u201d In fact, research shows that more work does no<\/em>t correlate with more or better output! It often costs more in mistakes and accidents in the workplace.\u00a0 The lack of time off costs companies in absenteeism, turnover and rising health costs. \u00a0\u00a0We know that when we have too many computer programs running at once they can get hung up so we power off, wait a bit and reboot the system. \u00a0Humans, too, need to regularly power off and re boot our \u201ccomputer\u201d so it works better.<\/p>\n

Productivity Worry<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Worried about deadlines missed or mistakes that might occur in your absence? Taking a vacation can actually be empowering for your team!\u00a0 When you delegate and give others authority to act it builds their confidence and forces them to take on expanded responsibilities and new tasks.\u00a0 Morale is boosted when a company honors the need for time off and life balance.\u00a0\u00a0 This increased employee engagement more than makes up for time spent on vacation.<\/p>\n

\"\"We only have so much time and energy to expend in our daily lives.\u00a0 No one ever got to their deathbed and wished they\u2019d worked more! \u00a0While it can seem difficult to start taking time off, the benefits of doing so (less stress, less anxiety, calmer attitude, etc.) will result in more productivity and innovation.\u00a0\u00a0 You may even have time for family, friends and community involvement- all those things that make for the balanced life you thought you had no time for!\u00a0\u00a0 Make yourself a priority and take care of you.\u00a0 Your business will be the better for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vacation Means Better Business! The sound of birds early in the morning, long warm nights and the smell of food on the grill can only mean one thing; it’s summer time!\u00a0 Remember how relaxing summer used to be? Remember when you used to take vacation? Have you thought about taking some time off this summer? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[35,37,29,85,67,86,30,38,88,91,56,77,90,87,43,89],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}