Some companies are offering their employees an unlimited number of holidays. But that's not necessarily a good news. Cole Burston / Bloomberg News
Some companies are offering their employees an unlimited number of holidays. But that's not necessarily a good news. Cole Burston / Bloomberg News

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Imagine you receive a letter from your employer. “Congratulations: we are rewriting your contract! And, guess what, you now have unlimited time off! Feel free to take as many holiday days as you like. Seriously. Go to the Maldives, go to Korea, go to Peru! We want you to love what you do and do what you love!”

Great news – or so it seems. You realise you are no longer entitled to your annual set of paid days off, nor are you paid for the days of leave you don’t claim. You realise that you already work 14 hours a day, because your organisation has a long-hours culture and expects you to appear diligent by chaining yourself to your desk. You realise that now, instead of claiming your days of holiday, you will have to gauge your manager’s expectations, and compete against colleagues by taking fewer holidays.

Informal norms now replace previously clear guidelines, as The National reported yesterday. Are you passionate enough? Do you love what you do? What does your manager expect? Will this be mentioned at your annual performance review? Congratulations, we are rewriting your contract!

COMPANY PROFILE
Name: ARDH Collective
Based: Dubai
Founders: Alhaan Ahmed, Alyina Ahmed and Maximo Tettamanzi
Sector: Sustainability
Total funding: Self funded
Number of employees: 4
Top tips

Create and maintain a strong bond between yourself and your child, through sensitivity, responsiveness, touch, talk and play. “The bond you have with your kids is the blueprint for the relationships they will have later on in life,” says Dr Sarah Rasmi, a psychologist.
Set a good example. Practise what you preach, so if you want to raise kind children, they need to see you being kind and hear you explaining to them what kindness is. So, “narrate your behaviour”.
Praise the positive rather than focusing on the negative. Catch them when they’re being good and acknowledge it.
Show empathy towards your child’s needs as well as your own. Take care of yourself so that you can be calm, loving and respectful, rather than angry and frustrated.
Be open to communication, goal-setting and problem-solving, says Dr Thoraiya Kanafani. “It is important to recognise that there is a fine line between positive parenting and becoming parents who overanalyse their children and provide more emotional context than what is in the child’s emotional development to understand.”
 

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