Many system administrators and netwerkmanagers to turn out their holiday deliberately outside the summer books. Although money plays a role, appears to many an administrator, the quiet time to for other pursuits.
This can be concluded from a research that Tweakers.net under 352 it professionals has held, most of the system administrator, network manager or it manager. 39,2% of the respondents said their holiday deliberately outside the summer books.
A lot of named arguments to be out of the summer to go on vacation that allows for account to be held with colleagues with school-age children and can take advantage of the lower rates. It is also indicated that working in the summer has advantages.
“In the off-season has several advantages. Now I can simply carry on working without too much difficult to be cases, and as it once again hit, I’m on vacation and allowed my colleagues to capture”, responds one of the respondents, for example. Another suggests: “Why would I take a vacation as the rest of that also? In this way I create peace in my number of working weeks without holiday for to take.”
Of the respondents says 69,6 percent during the summer, calmer. The other 30.4 percent has the rather busier. Of the administrators who say the quieter, he says to 68.6 percent that this is because there is simply less calls for help from employees, because that vacation. Of the administrators who just busier, says nearly 45 percent that this is because they are also the work of colleagues must take over.
It is striking that many administrators who say to slow down, not seem to need to be bored. Many indicate that they understand the quieter period to use for maintenance and other small jobs to do. Many respondents say that quieter period to come to things that in the busier period.
“In the office are less people, so on that side, less goes wrong and there is more time for maintenance chores and improvement in procedures. In addition, there are enough projects, so the biggest change is mainly the tijdsverdeling between the different components,” says one of the respondents.
Moreover, says the majority of the respondents are still not on vacation. 43,4 percent of the respondents have already holiday or, as some indicate – at the time of the survey on a holiday.