Because the National Day is only three days off in essence, but in order to make up for seven days, it really makes hard-working workers "chop and change" and "rob Peter to pay Paul" feel angry and tired.
Why is rest so annoying?
The pain of losing the weekend is far greater than the pleasure of taking a vacation.
Some people think that there is no need to make such a big fire on holidays. After all, there is no shortage of holidays in essence, just an extra day off. Is it okay to go to bed early and stay late?
No, because according to the prospect theory, most people are more sensitive to loss than to gain, which is a kind of loss aversion.
For example, will you be happy if your boss gives you a 500 yuan bonus today? Then, if the boss gave you a bonus of 1000 yuan first, and then told you that you accidentally sent more 500 yuan and asked you to return 500 yuan to the company, would you be as happy as before?
Although from a rational point of view, you won the 500 yuan Prize, I believe that the second situation is even worse for most people. Under the influence of aversion to loss, the pain of losing 500 yuan is far greater than the happiness of gaining 500 yuan.
In the same way, the loss of a day off on weekends is far greater than the gain of a day off on weekdays.
Why do people care so much about losses? From the perspective of evolutionary psychology, in the long evolutionary history of human beings, the consequences of bad things with the same intensity are often more serious than good things, which are related to life and death. Therefore, more attention is paid to the inheritance of bad genes from generation to generation, which has formed the negative prejudice of contemporary human beings.
Although paid vacation gives people seven days off, it brings losses on weekends, and the total amount remains unchanged. But under the influence of loss aversion and negative deviation, people will definitely have a kind of "exploitation" pain.
Continuous work is very tiring.
What bothers us is not only the sense of loss, but also the fact that we work continuously for longer than before.
Employees continue to work hard, and their physical and psychological resources will be consumed. Therefore, people need to recover their physical and mental resources through adequate rest during non-working hours, so that the stress load reactions (such as hypertension and fatigue) caused by work can be restored to the normal baseline level before being destroyed by work.
As the netizen said, "Man is not a machine, not a simple addition and subtraction, and the accumulated debuff of the body will cause irreversible damage if it is not eliminated in time."
For an extreme example, would you like to wake up 17 hours and sleep for 7 hours every day? Or do you work continuously for 34 hours and then sleep at one breath 14 hours? The latter situation is obviously more stressful to the body.
If employees can't recover after continuous work, there will be a series of health problems, such as increased heart rate, hypertension, chronic fatigue syndrome, insomnia and so on. The longer they work, the lower their happiness will be.
For organizations, working long hours may not necessarily bring high output. People who work more than 40 hours a week are prone to job burnout, such as energy loss, fatigue, loss of enthusiasm and motivation, inability to suppress, and unwillingness to work hard.
So, can the small long vacation before and after the holiday play a relaxing role? Not necessarily, because it disrupts the normal work-leisure rhythm.
Work-leisure rhythm disorder brings out of control.
Many people prefer short holidays without holidays and long holidays with holidays. In the case of rest, continuous work also interferes with people's normal work-leisure rhythm and disrupts those daily routines.
Most people need an orderly daily life, such as working regularly for five days and weekends, which can bring a sense of stability and control to their lives and is related to whether a person can maintain a healthy physical and mental state. There is also a strong correlation between daily fixed arrangements and a sense of meaning in life.
"Today's sleep must be slept today, and today's meal must be eaten today". No one wants to be hungry for one day today and eat six meals tomorrow, which will not only make people sick, but also make people feel that the world is a mess.
However, rest disrupts the rhythm of work-leisure and makes people feel out of control and controlled easily. Human beings have a basic psychological need-autonomy, that is, a sense of control over their own behavior and psychological freedom.
For those who don't want to take time off, it makes people arrange it clearly and hurts our independent needs. A large number of studies show that if employees' self-needs are not met, being forced to work will not only damage their happiness and physical and mental health, but also bring about worse work attitude and performance.
Think about it. I originally planned to have a good rest at home this weekend, but I found myself taking the initiative to get up early for work. Working for seven days in a row can lead to a normal weekend.
This makes it difficult for people to continue to glow at work with peace of mind and just want to fish until the last moment before the holiday.
Where did the rest come from?
The first keyword that pops up when searching for a leave note on Weibo is: "Who invented the leave note?" There seems to be a lot of grief and indignation in finding an enemy.
In fact, holidays only have a history of more than 20 years. At the beginning of its birth, it was an innovation of the old holiday system.
At one time, there were few holidays in China. In the traditional agricultural concept, there is no need for a regular vacation system when the farm is busy. 1958, the perfection of the system of one day off every half month is worth publishing in People's Daily.
During the special period, everyone insisted on "grasping the revolution and promoting production" during the Spring Festival, and even the slogan "Don't stop fighting at the age of 30, stick to it on the first day" was written on the door of the pigsty.
Since the reform and opening up, the broad masses of the people have called for the resumption of holidays. For example, in June, People's Daily wrote a letter column 1979, an article entitled "Why don't you have a holiday during the Spring Festival? "letter.
With the society paying more and more attention to holidays, in the 50th anniversary of the founding of New China 1999, the State Council revised the National Festival and Remembrance Day, increasing the annual national legal holidays from 7 days to 10 days. For the first time, "May 1 Golden Week" and "Eleventh Golden Week" appeared.
However, in this version of the holiday system, there are only three days off on May Day. How did the "Golden Week" with seven days off come from?
The answer is today's gnashing holiday: you can get a whole week's holiday by moving the weekend back and forth.
The original intention of the rest system is not only to let everyone have a more coherent leisure holiday, but also to stimulate domestic demand and consumption under the background of the Asian financial crisis, especially to promote the development of domestic tourism, adjust the economic structure, and increase the proportion of tertiary industries such as tourism, transportation, accommodation and catering.
But under this system, if the time is unlucky, it will cause something that looks strange.
For example, during the Spring Festival in 2005, people needed to work for nine days in a row, which was fatal. This year's National Day, everyone is also very difficult, even if they have to work for seven days after taking a seven-day break, it simply gives people the feeling of hope and despair.
Therefore, in 2007, the holiday method was revised again, and the above extreme situation no longer appeared, but in order to engage in a "small holiday", the holiday that disrupted the pace of work and life was still retained.
Is it really necessary to ask for leave?
China's retirement system has been implemented since 2000 and has not been abolished until today, but the effect is not good.
From the economic point of view, according to the research of the Tsinghua University Holiday System Reform Task Force, the "Golden Week" system has not played such a big role in stimulating the national economy since its implementation, and the promotion of holidays to tourism is only a "golden illusion".
This is because the most important factor affecting tourism consumption is the disposable income of residents. If the income level of residents remains unchanged, both tourism consumption and other types of consumption will remain relatively stable.
Creating the "Golden Week" through vacation only makes people focus on the time of tourism consumption, and has no substantial contribution to the increase of tourism income throughout the year.
Based on the new method issued by 1999, the growth rate of tourism revenue has not changed much before and after.
Moreover, misappropriating public holidays to piece together "Golden Week" and "Small Holidays" will also bring many disadvantages.
For example, the arrangement of centralized vacation artificially creates the off-season of tourism, which leads to the imbalance of supply and demand structure in the tourism market, overcrowding of holiday scenic spots and lack of resources, but there are many people on weekdays and resources are wasted.
For tourists, the experience of people everywhere is not good, which reduces the willingness to travel again. Before the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, many people didn't want to go out during the long holiday, but just wanted to sleep at home during the whole holiday.
To sum up, researchers generally believe that the historical task of the "Golden Week" system has been completed, and its negative effects are increasingly prominent.
What people want is a regular, independent and real holiday.
Personally, what we want is "rest", not "tone". What most people want is a regular, independent and undisturbed rest, not an arranged and incomplete holiday that disrupts the work-leisure rhythm.
First of all, the recurrence of epidemic situation makes people's lives full of uncertainty. For many people, traveling abroad is an extravagant hope. It's really not worthwhile to spend seven days at home instead of working for seven days. Many people need regular rest more.
The epidemic has affected people's mood and caused some people's daily fixed arrangements to be disrupted.
Regular daily work and life rhythm can alleviate the damage caused by stress to physical and mental health. It is very necessary for people to ensure a basic eight-hour working day and regular weekends in this special period.
On this basis, we also need to have the autonomy of vacation.
In China, the "Labor Law" promulgated by 1994 clearly stipulates the implementation of paid annual leave system, and the "Regulations on Paid Leave for Employees" in 2007 also stipulates the specific implementation methods of this system, but there are still many enterprises that cannot fully protect the rights and interests of paid leave for employees.
What people want more is to really enjoy and freely control their paid holidays, rather than transferred holidays and centralized rest throughout the country.
Finally, whether it is the most basic regular weekend rest or independent paid vacation, migrant workers hope that these vacations can make people have a real and undisturbed rest. With the progress of science and technology, human beings are living in a new era of "always online", and the boundaries between work and life are becoming more and more blurred.
Enterprise wechat, flying books, nailing ... all kinds of instant messaging tools enable us to be found by bosses, colleagues and customers at any time. Many people live in the fear that holidays will still be dominated by work news, and a holiday that can enjoy the right not to be disturbed for a while is a real holiday.
The pursuit of a better life is inseparable from the freedom of vacation, and working people deserve more regular, independent and real holidays.