Always available, with holidays difficult to program and which are not always really restful. These are the holidays of the workers in the VAT number. Holidays are considered important, if not fundamental, by 77% of free professionals, 42% manage to plan them in advance, while the remaining 58% move with little notice and mainly for short periods. 65% prefer to stay in Italy, the sea is the favorite destination to regenerate and the holiday home the most used housing solution. Just more than half, 53%, however, say they do not rest enough days to make the best of the possibilities during the year.
The data are the results of a survey by Tech Company Fiscozen, who interviewed over 1200 freelancers to frame the space and value given to rest in the life of those who do not work as an employee.
In contrast to the imagination, which sees the freelancer on vacation for long periods and several times during the year, from the survey to emerge that 34% make less than 15 days of holidays on twelve months, 49% between 15 and 30 days and only 17% exceed 30 days.
A few days and not very restaurateurs: when on vacation, only 19% manage to completely detach from work, the remaining 81% checks daily emails and telephone, maintaining a certain availability, or continues to work, even if with a reduced regime.
Furthermore, one in four VAT worker has the habit of not communicating the holiday periodAlthough this is respected by customers in 55% of cases, anticipating or postponing deliveries and requests. The almost half remaining, even if informed of the absence, still contacts professionals by leveraging that these are urgent requests, fast or in any case exceptional conditions.
«When you have your business it is difficult not to think about it, even on vacation. It is part of you and your identity. It does not surprise me that 86% of VAT workers do not include in estimates a figure destined to cover the pause days, as is the case for employees. But sooner or later all freelancers find themselves dealing with the consequences, economic and mental, that they have not organized their time in a sustainable way. In the end it is a question of lifestyle: you can choose the one you prefer, but you cannot ignore the impact on your work »says Enrico Mattiazzi, CEO and Co-Founder of Fiscozen.
Source: Vanity Fair
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