Easing Back Into Your Role After Annual Leave by Keira Todd
Keira Todd is Digital Business Accelerator Apprentice at Allegis and is writing for the Community Blogging Team.
I, Keira Todd, aim to drive change and hope to empower those around me.
You're now on this journey with me where we will drive our inspirations, motivations and visions.
I want to welcome you as we embark on this journey together.
I am currently sitting in Paris after recently returning from Tenerife and reflecting on once thinking how I felt uncertain of how limited I may feel after moving into a full-time role. Now, thinking of a full-time job, many think of feeling trapped, adapting to limited freedom and ongoing ingrained structure to stay put. However, this is very wrong and I have now established this myself! The way you utilise your time off, the way you make the most of it, whether it’s to explore different cities, to visit a loved one you rarely adapt the advantage to see, spending time to build on yourself and to get to know yourself in more depth, you can certainly inherit privileges.
There are many ways that you can utilise your time away from your screen and from your emails to understand and get to know yourself in further depth. It is easy to forget your passions, your felt purpose or even forget your relationships with others. This is why it is so important to ensure you take time away to make sure that you do not lose touch of these important things.
How one's own personal time is used is subjective and up to preference. Whether this may be taking your dog for a walk on your break, socialising after work with people in your team or going to network on your lunch break. Whatever your preference may be, as long as you feel comfortable and happy with your time used, this is what really matters.
Annual leave can promote and retain good physical and mental health. 75% of UK workers take all of their paid holiday, with Australia being the lowest stat of only 43% employees taking all of their paid holiday. Some reasons employees may state for not taking annual leave could be: ‘I can’t afford to go on holiday’, ‘I want to carry days over for a longer holiday next year’, ‘I don’t have enough reason to take any holiday’, ‘I don’t want to appear lazy to my manager’. All of these statements are used commonly and if you feel this way, you are not alone. Annual leave does not need to be only for flashy holidays abroad, it could be a day to take for yourself and to take yourself out of a coffee. If you feel that you will appear lazy to your manager then it may be best to reevaluate your work environment and ethics. It is so important to look after and take care of yourself and your needs regardless but also to ensure you are performing your best in working hours.
If you’re feeling lost and cannot find a reason to take your annual leave then please revaluate, find a new hobby, get in contact with that old friend, look after yourself and take care!
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