Plenty Won’t Be Heading To The Office Next Week [POLL]

Have any big plans next week – after Christmas and before New Years? A new report from the office space company Regus PLC finds only 64 percent of employees will be working next week – and 39 percent say they don’t expect to be very productive.

Carl Van Horn, the Director of the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers says it’s not really surprising because there are a lot businesses that must be open all the time – including retail, the health care industry, energy, police, fire and sanitation – and while some people might not think a lot gets done by people who go to work between Christmas and New Years, “they might use this time to write year-end reports, and prepare for what will happen in the first quarter of the year ahead.”

He says so many people are taking off next week because “they don’t have a lot of other people who they do business with that are in business, so they have more time to tend to those kind of matters… I do think people want to be at work and prove that they’re good workers – but it’s important to remember that many people don’t have that choice…they don’t have paid vacation- and so they can’t choose whether to be there or not – they have assignments, they work on an hourly basis, if they don’t show up, they don’t get paid.”

Van Horn adds many people – “if their employer says they’re open for business – they’re called in to work, then they have to be there or they risk losing their job.”