At the end of the year, it’s a busy time, busy with monthly, quarterly and annual closings, especially with the finance piece that is so relevant. Even if you want to steal a half day of leisure, but also dare not ah. Do not see the year-end bonus is still in the hands of the boss? Once you pass December 31, that’s different. The head of the sword moved away, the annual settlement is done. The new year’s work well, the year has just begun, there are still a lot of days to complete, regardless of it. What is this state? The year-end slackness!
Wang, a netizen, has been lazy lately and just can’t get up for work every day. The state of courage than in December is a day and a place. In his own words, this month no mind to work. Leaders look at this phenomenon in the eyes of the heart, Wang himself also know. At most in front of the leadership to pretend, secretly always as usual. I can’t help it, I just can’t concentrate on my work.
In fact, this situation is common to many people. The company’s main goal is to provide a comprehensive range of products and services to the market. Domestic experts have long found this phenomenon, and put forward the concept of “pre-holiday slack”. They point out that late, absent-minded, irritable and lost are the most typical manifestations of this “disease”.
The phenomenon of slacking off before the Chinese New Year is even more prominent in many companies that are counting the effects at the end of the year. 48.19%, the proportion of marketing staff slack also reached 40.34%. This is due to a variety of reasons.
One is the pressure that usually accumulates.
People’s slacking off before a long vacation is related to the usual work stress. According to Freud’s personality theory, the human ego is in pursuit of enjoyment, but to survive in society, we have to temporarily give up the needs of the ego and work hard to survive and develop, which puts a lot of pressure on our inner self. At the same time, the needs of the ego are always present. We are always reminded that we need to relax ourselves with external forces, and the relaxation of long holidays is the best impetus for us to relax in time, so the ego becomes expectant of such external forces. This makes one excited and thus unmotivated to work.
For Xiao Wang, it was just the end of the year, and after a year of accumulated stress and the holidays, it was a little out of control. He is doing sales, usually more nervous than other positions of employees, the implementation of the irregular work system. The customer has the need to lead the idea to come with, and so is the meaning of 24 hours on call. At the beginning of January, this month of the year is mainly to plan the work of the year, and there are gaps in the next big time to make up, as a midway break. The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers.
Two, because Chinese New Year is coming up.
Why are employees more likely to slack off before the Chinese New Year? This starts with looking at the traditional Chinese culture to find the reason. “The sound of firecrackers in a year, the spring breeze sent warmth into the Tu Su.” The Northern Song poet Wang Anshi’s “New Year’s Day” reflects the psychological symbolism of Chinese New Year, namely that the first day of the first month is truly the beginning of a new year.
At the same time, the Chinese also believe in “sowing in spring, cultivating in summer, harvesting in autumn, and resting in winter”. This has influenced people’s mentality that “the year’s plan lies in spring” and that it is only right to “sow” after the Spring Festival.
Three are physiological factors.
Also, for companies that are counting at the end of the year, by the end of December all tasks have been completed. At this point, people are like rubber bands stretched to their limits, and naturally want to loosen up a bit.
The study of attention in physiological psychology can provide an answer to this. Researchers at the University of Kent in the UK found that adults can focus their attention for an average of 20 minutes a day, after which they wander. For people who focus their attention on their work all the time, burnout is bound to occur, so when they encounter some opportunity, such as the Chinese New Year, they naturally turn their attention away from their work, which manifests itself as slacking off.
It seems that it is normal for employees to be slack at work, and as leaders, they should show understanding. For example, before the Spring Festival, many employees of a company were not interested in work and played the game of “kill” on the Internet. The boss personally ambushed and caught people. But the employees’ working condition is getting worse and worse. How to solve it?
Leaders need to learn from this. Since employees want to relax before the Chinese New Year, leaders can simply take advantage of the situation in a bright way by taking them to a get-together, chatting, or having an outreach session to lift the team’s spirits in a relaxed way. Also, within the company, you can have a “brainstorming session”.
As an employee, these reasons for slacking off may seem justifiable. But think of it this way: it would be beneficial to start the new year off on the right foot, with a tighter schedule and effective implementation.
For one thing, it makes a good impression on your leaders, which is the secret to a fresh year, and we won’t tell them. The second is to allow yourself to reduce stress. A year’s task is a quota, now completed, the next day is not to relax a little? It’s all about you.
Year-end slackness is primarily a problem caused by a combination of psychological and physical factors, a phenomenon that seems to be widespread and taken for granted, and occurs at a specific time. It is difficult to avoid, whether by leaders or employees, and we can overcome it with practical actions.
Quietly, as the year draws to a close, proper rest is tacitly accepted, but don’t be overly lazy and let your boss find out you’re slacking off, if not oversized, so I guess the leaders will turn a blind eye.