here to answer some of those questions
vice-president for Robert Half finance
and accounting in Jacksonville
Kevin Trainor Kevin good to have you
back on sir I know that you're a busy
guy sure you've got a lot of
responsibilities as do so many people at
home watching this and when you take
vacation it can kind of not necessarily
feel like a vacation because you carry
those responsibilities with you of
course yeah it can be hard sometimes
especially with some of the technology
we have at our disposal now and how easy
you are to be reached and respond to
emails and phone calls to really kind of
unplug while you're out of the office
even when you leave the country yeah
yeah even international travel it can
follow you anywhere these days right it
can be it can be a challenge all right
so what do we need to do yeah so you
know a couple of suggestions if you are
gonna be taking some time off try and
set expectations with your team members
or your staff you know windows of time
that you might be a little bit more
accessible if you do have to be in
communication with the office maybe
you're involved in a special project or
there's certain deadlines that you have
to hit that may overlap your timeout
plan to regroup with your team when
you're back in the office at a meeting
for that first day back kind of catch up
on whatever was accomplished or whatever
was delayed when you weren't there and
this will help you maybe have a little
bit more of a peace of mind and really
be able to enjoy your time out okay so
it's like I'm gonna be gone but you can
call me from 12 o'clock till 12:05 if
you have to not before not after right I
mean obviously the suggestion of the
recommendation use your vacation time
for what it is you know unplug refresh
you know give yourself the time away
from the office to kind of you'll come
back rejuvenated hopefully when you get
back to the office but if you have to be
in touch with those that you work with
those are a couple suggestions to make a
little bit easier for you to manage yeah
a lot of people feel guilty though right
should they yeah no I you know I mean
like I said you know vacation time is
there for that reason you know to give
you the time away from work you know if
you're worried about how it may affect
co-workers or other people on your team
maybe picking up the slack if you can
talk to them and plan far enough ahead
that you're not just dropping this in
their lap you know a day or two before
you go out that'll help maybe alleviate
some of that guilt and and make the
transition a little bit easier while
you're out of the office but you know
everybody uses vacation time hopefully
you know at some point during the year
so you should have
you know shouldn't feel too bad about it
so it's like hey listen I'm taking a
break and I'm probably gonna ignore you
yeah hopefully maybe I can smooth that a
little bit right over a little bit
better but yeah that's the jist
expectation yeah yeah and then also if
you have the luxury I mean what about
like a pointing a point person yeah
leave it like kind of somewhat do what
you're supposed to yeah delegate you
know it's a it's a big piece of being
able to give you that ease of mind while
you're out of the office particularly if
you're in a management or a leadership
role within the organization having
somebody that can step up and take on
some of those responsibilities gives you
kind of a good perspective of whether or
not maybe they're ready for the next
step in their career succession planning
you know how they could do in that type
of manager or leadership role in the
future so when you're gone how
accessible are you personal question
funny ask I was actually out of the
office Thursday and Friday and and I was
reachable during certain times during
the day you know we had some scheduling
stuff that we were doing you know
personally away from the office but it's
hard you know didn't and in our business
and like most you know it's hard to now
at least check emails and respond to
those on occasion so and you kind of get
anxiety sometimes with not being in the
loop I feel that way in the news because
I got too many different stories and I'm
following and I'm like if I'm not here
for this it's gonna break and somebody
else is gonna take it yeah I think it's
a it's a side effect somewhat of you
know kind of how we are as a society at
the moment a lot of people are very
controlling they want to make sure that
they're involved in everything and and
that almost kind of fear of not seeing
things as they're coming in it can give
you that type of anxiety while you're
out of the office for sure yeah all
right good stuff
Kevin Trainor with Robert Half we
appreciate it and yeah just put that Do
Not Disturb on maybe just for a little
bit maybe just for like half the day
something like that for more advice you
can go to Robert half.com make