Reply email, meeting, socialise with clients and others are the daily routine of a normal staff. It’s hard for them to be stress-free and take time to take care of their family members.
However, a holiday is essential for you to relax your mind. Besides, a study of the University of Helsinki showed that the length of the vacation will affect life expectancy. Workers with a vacation of more than 3 weeks a year will live longer.
Half of the respondents to change their living habits, such as exercising or quitting smoking, while the other half of the respondents received no instructions to change their living habits. The experts involved have been tracking the health status of the respondents for over 40 years.
The result of the study found that people who follow the instructions have a higher chance of dying early. It is believed that they viewed the instructions as pressure for themselves. Besides, it was found that those who took less than 3 weeks of vacation a year had a 37% higher risk of death in the next 30 years than those who took more than 3 weeks.
A professor involved in the study, Timo Strandberg, pointed out that this result is due to the fact that the people slept less due to the high workload.
This research reflects that working people should try to get the opportunity to take vacations and rest.
Relieving stress is an important factor in reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease. Don’t force yourself to keep working.
Take a good vacation and rest, so that you can truly relax your body and mind.
In addition, it will help your work efficiency. You need to understand that it is useless to have money without a healthy body!