Kevin Hoyle, CEO & Managing Director B2BGateway.Net
As humans we all love the summer time. It usually rains less, the sun shines more, (except in our
Ireland offices), and we get outside more often. Most of us schedule our vacations/holidays during
the summer so that we can get away from the office and enjoy our lives a little bit more. This
is great for the staff, families of staff and everyone concerned.
The one drawback to taking vacations during the months of July and August is that everyone does it.
In the United States, the two weeks
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surrounding the 4th of July are a productivity nightmare. Many US factories still shutdown during
the week of the 4th of July. Years ago, I worked as a software engineer for Raytheon, a large US
producer of military hardware and
software. Since the factory producing the hardware shutdown during the week of the 4th,
accounting also shut down. The software engineers, had to work, but we did not get paid
for our work until later in the month.
In the EU, it is expected that nothing will be accomplished during the month of August. People do
not even plan to have meetings and new programs do not start up until September.
Even when we at B2BGateway.Net are fully staffed, we often have difficulty contacting people at
other companies because they are on vacation. So as a CEO, I have come to the conclusion that
there are two possible choices to alleviate the problem of summertime vacations impacting
corporate productivity:
- We can discontinue all future vacations/holidays for all staff members and push to
have all vacations abolished worldwide.
- I can just go on vacation myself and deal with the inevitable productivity impacts.
I think option 2 might be the better choice. I hope everyone has a great vacation this summer,
I have my sunscreen and beach umbrella already packed, so I will see you when I get back.
Kevin
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