Does Holiday bring stress to you? Or

Impact of working during holiday season bringing stress to you?

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The holidays are supposed to be a time of joy and excitement but due to management of stress in the workplace it can be challenging to employees. Employees who work under a company is not only responsible for their job but may also have responsibility to allocate time for family and scheduling events. Being caught up with meeting deadlines and end of year office work could create a storm of holiday stress not only to you but to your team as well and this will impact the productivity. Additionally, with the current pandemic situation with Covid-19 spreading among your community you may feel stressed and tensed. The primary reason would be because your holiday plan is ruined out during this Covid-19 Pandemic.

Here is some practical way to enjoy your holiday while minimizing your stress on work and this pandemic. We believe these tips will help you enjoy the holiday in different ways than you thought you will.

Plan your holidays in advance

Always set an early deadline for holidays so this will give an alert for you to finish up all the task before the holidays. Managers should set clear schedule and communicate with co-workers as soon as possible before the holidays. Communication is the best and important tool between employee and employers. This can give a greater chance of increasing productivity while being happy at work.

Sort out work priorities

Set a reminder for yourself or as a manager you can remind your team as well to focus on important jobs that needs to be completed before the holidays. Always set important to lesser deadline then move on to longer deadline.

Offer flexible benefit

To help reduce end of year office stress the company can give an option to employees to work from home at least once a week or twice a week. This can be an option for you to reduce stress during holidays.

End of the day the holiday season needs to bring joy and happiness to all rather than stress. Bear in mind to always set reminder for deadlines of your projects and communicate with your team members to have high productivity at work while maintaining a goof relationship with team members.

By Darnisha & Lisa