Title | A Company Where Employees Are Required To Take Vacation | |
Date | Thursday October 30 2014, @09:25AM | |
Author | LaminatorX | |
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from the twist-my-arm-harder dept. |
The Center for American Progress reports:
At Authentic Jobs, a job search website, employees aren't just given vacation days. They're now required to take a certain number each year.
When founder Cameron Moll first started the company, he decided to institute an unlimited vacation policy much like the one in place at larger companies like Virgin Atlantic and Netflix. "Running Authentic Jobs, I see a lot of perks come through," Moll told ThinkProgress. "One that crops up is often vacation." Moll, resistant to typical corporate culture, was looking to do things differently. An attractive vacation policy can draw talent. "It does make for a good sell with potential candidates," he said. "It just sounds awesome."
But he found he didn't like the policy. [...] no one was taking enough.
[...]This trend had negative ramifications at Authentic Jobs. "Our overall health wasn't as good as it could be," he said. He also didn't have a way to track how much time people were taking and when, so he had no way to urge people to take more.
So he decided to try something different. "What if we got rid of this policy we had in place and flipped the traditional vacation policy on its head?" he thought to himself. "Instead of focus on maximum, focus on minimums." The new policy requires employees to take off 12 holidays and 15 vacation days a year, and then they can take unlimited time above that. "We're saying you need to take off at least 27 days per year and then beyond that if you need additional time, feel free to do it," he explained.
"Right now it's only a concept, only a theory for us, we just implemented it recently," he said. "I'm really curious to see how it plays out."
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