Given more vacations:
Why do you assume that people who work hard already will work even harder?
Why do you assume that people who slack at work will work any harder?<p>Remember, people compete with each other, so do companies. They&#x27;re not trying to hit some predetermined level of yearly productivity. If you give vacations to everybody, they&#x27;ll actually spend some off time, that&#x27;s that.<p>This was actually tried. In Russia a full week of vacations was introduced, around the New Year. Did people start working harder? No. Did anything collapse? No.