Holidays vs. Vacation

It’s a holiday week at PAS this week. Except for the finance people counting up the year’s results and a few sales people pushing through last-minute orders, the place is pretty quiet.

After a busy year with some 30% growth (Yea! Go team go!!), it’s good to have a little quiet time. Time away for family, friends and maybe even some outside interests.

Holidays alone are good, but they’re often so busy that the desired “relaxation-effect” doesn’t have enough time to take hold. Especially around Christmas with all of the shopping, parties, school programs and more! We need the week after Christmas just to recover.

But even better than holidays is vacation.

Like many companies, PAS follows a “use-it-or-lose-it” policy to limit carry-over of unused vacation days. Policies like this aren’t set by some Scrooge in over in the HR department to save money, but to help employees take the downtime that they deserve – and that they need to recharge after a season of hard work.

It’s a natural rhythm kind of thing kind – work hard, rest a while, and then word hard some more...

So if you’ve been guilty of carrying around excess vacation, why not resolve to actually take all of the days you might earn in 2006? A little rest might be just the thing….and it sounds like a new year’s resolution that is more fun and easier to keep than getting back into an exercise program to work off all the holiday treats (although that’s a good one too!).

Whatever your new year’s resolution may be – I hope you can achieve that goal and end up with a blessed and prosperous 2006!

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