Unlimited Vacation Time

[Milhouse]

6 is where you start to get noticed. if your numbers are good then it's fine, but the issue is that we have staff who don't have a project to work on so they take a few days off, rather than actually going and finding some work to do.

millennials amirite?

 

[deacdiggler]

YES.

 

[Grabs Turds Bare]

I can't imagine a workplace that an unlimited TO policy doesn't end up generating tension. Unless there aren't any 20-45 year old women in the office.

 

[AMCDeac]

Not as good as it sounds. https://www.thecut.com/2018/06/why-...?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=sou I have a client that tried it - didn't work for the company, although I didn't hound them for a post mortem on the program. I guess in theory I can take off whenever I want (self employed), but my problem is I don't take enough time off. The hassle of coming back from a week (other than slow holiday weeks) tends to drive stress higher.

 

[deacphan]

Americans love dick measuring on how much they work

 

[WhatUTalkinBout Willis]

Companies are forever worried about how much somebody is there and rarely measure productivity in any meaningful way. I have some folks who could take 12 weeks of vacation per year and still outproduce those who only take 2.

 

[HeltonCreek]

Americans love dick measuring on how much they work

Ain't that the truth.

 

[CantStandYa]

Americans love dick measuring on how much they work

Anyone who's spent time living in DC knows that the only important question is "where do you work?"

 

[AnonymousDeac]

Americans love dick measuring on how much they work

Already talking like an expat

 

[tigerswood]

Companies are forever worried about how much somebody is there and rarely measure productivity in any meaningful way. I have some folks who could take 12 weeks of vacation per year and still outproduce those who only take 2.

This is correct.

 

[ImTheCaptain]

true; some industries rely more on bodies in the chair, so to speak, than others rather when we're talking "productivity", though

 

[PhDeac]

Already talking like an expat

Kinda how he started talking like an annoying West Coaster before he left DC.

 

[RacerDeac]

true; some industries rely more on bodies in the chair, so to speak, than others rather when we're talking "productivity", though

Yup. I've had jobs where I could get what was asked of me done in a fraction of a standard 40-hour work week, but I had to be available for those dependent on answers from me for 40+ hours a week anyway. Same thing for all of the competent folks up and down the hierarchy. If we all could have just agreed on the same 4 hours of dedicated work time every day, we all could have enjoyed time off.