How to politely refuse the leader's overtime request?

First, do not reply to the news of the leader in time.

Some people are afraid of being accused by the leader, so as long as they receive the news from the leader, they will reply immediately. Even if I am at home on holiday, I will always pay attention to the dynamics of my mobile phone. If there is a message, I'll see if it's the news from work right away. However, if the leader arranges you to work overtime during the holiday and you don't want to go, you'd better not reply to the leader immediately. Because if you reply to the message immediately, the first thing is that the leader often thinks that you are free now and there is no problem working overtime. If you refuse, the leader will think that your work attitude is not positive and even dislike you. The second is that even if you agree to work overtime, the leader will think you should, because you didn't delay the rest time.

Second, explain what you are doing now.

If you want to refuse to work overtime during the holiday, after receiving the news from the leader, you'd better mention what you are doing outside before refusing. There are two main advantages to this. The first is that you said that you are now in a state of non-leisure, and the leader will not be embarrassed. You stubbornly believe that you must go back to the company to work overtime, but you want to solve this task in other ways. The second is that even if the leader will let you go back to work overtime, if you sacrifice your own things to complete the tasks at work, the leader will feel guilty about you and think that your work attitude is good.

Third, put forward the completion plan of work tasks.

Don't breathe a sigh of relief immediately after the leader agrees to your request not to go back to work overtime. Although the leader is willing to give up the task and let you have a good vacation, the work still needs to be completed. Failure to successfully solve this matter, even if it is not important now, the leader will still be a little unhappy in helplessness. At this time, if you can come up with a plan to complete the task, even if you don't go back to work overtime, the credit for solving this problem will still be on your head. Moreover, the leader has given up hope of solving this problem today, and you gave the leader a surprise. He won't blame you for not going back to work overtime, but will be glad that you solved his problem.