What days are workers most happy about? You guessed it, it is the holidays and second to that is probably payday. Holidays are a great time to be free of work to go on vacation, enjoy some me time, family time, and catching up with some friends. Today, I want to share my thoughts on days that would make sense to be free from work.
Malaysia
Firstly, Malaysia has a lot of holidays. This is due to the three main ethnic groups in Malaysia, Chinese, Malay and Indian. For example, within the last three months we had two big public holidays. The first was Chinese New Year that was in February and now Hari Raya which is celebrated by the Malay since most are Muslim. Malaysia also has different holidays based on the state so for my state I have about twenty public holidays. If we add up from other states, Malaysia has like 50+ public holidays. For students, they have even more because they get term holidays and end of year holidays.
Birthday
The first day that comes to my mind is birthday. I think people that work should get their birthday off. There are people that use their leaves on their birthday anyways so employers might as well just give them this day off. It's only once a year so I don't see the big deal.
Mourn
Another time that I can think about being free from work is if a family member passed away. The company should give some free days for the person to mourn for their family member. If I'm not wrong most companies do give compassionate leave which is usually about three days of leave for employees that lost a family member. I feel some people might need more than that hence they should get more free days. The employee wouldn't even able to focus at work so just let them come back when they are ready.
Skilling Up
Another time workers should get free days is to do some training. This training is not only beneficial to them but it will also benefit the company in the long run. The world is constantly changing and it's good to make sure employees have kept up and learned the new skills necessary to perform well in their company. For example, programming language is always evolving so what was learned during college/university may not be the same anymore years after.
Giving Back
Lastly, employers should value employees that are active in giving back to society. What do I mean by this? I'm talking about employees that do community service and give their time to help the community and the world become a better place. If there were important community service event dates, I think the employee should be able to get time off work to participate in helping out at the event.
Aside from the situations I listed, I couldn't really think of other situations where a worker should get more holidays or free time off work. I think these are good enough since they won't give students even more holidays. Personally for me, I don't really take holidays. I find myself always doing something since I've made an ambitious goal for myself before reaching thirty. I'm starting to focus super hard into crypto participating in communities and researching projects to invest in. Recently, I'm quite happy with getting around 0.179ETH in giveaways from holding Bumpies which you can see in my profile picture is a galactic bumpie and also a winning a planet NFT for apeiron from a raffle.
Anyways what do you think about workers getting these extra days off from work? If I missed something, do share your thoughts in the comments below.
