UAE residents have canceled plans to go abroad amidst the increasing number of COVID-19 cases.
Most people are opting to spend their vacations locally as UAE employees are avoiding taking a long annual leave to travel abroad.
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They are instead opting for a shorter vacation locally fearing that they might get stranded overseas due to constantly-changing travel restrictions.
Representatives of recruitment and HR industry said that employees are increasingly opting to spend their annual leaves locally since some companies have asked their employees to exhaust their annual leaves, but some employees have still accumulated a good number of annual leaves, as they were not able to travel abroad during the past two pandemic years.
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Mayank Patel, country head of Adecco Middle East said with new regulations to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the UAE and many countries imposing strict restrictions and lockdowns, “employees are now rethinking their leave plans to avoid being stranded.”
He said that there might not be any change in the annual leave policies of employees for now.
