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on Tuesday April 29 2014, @12:45AM
from the I-am-on-vacation-right-now-and-loving-it dept.
from the I-am-on-vacation-right-now-and-loving-it dept.
According to Glassdoor's Q1 2014 Employment Confidence Survey, the average U.S. employee (of those who receive vacation/paid time off) only takes half (51%) of his or her eligible vacation time/paid time off. In addition, when employees do take paid time off, three in five (61%) admit doing some work. Each quarter, the Glassdoor Employment Confidence Survey monitors four key indicators of employment confidence: salary expectations, job security, the job market and company outlook. This quarter's survey also took a look at employee vacation time, including the percentage of eligible vacation time/paid time off employees actually take, how much they work and why while on vacation, among other realities.
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(Score: 2) by darinbob on Wednesday April 30 2014, @03:02AM
Right now we no longer have vacation accrual where I work. It's basically take as much as you want if your manager approves (and I presume managers have some sort of guidelines to go with that). Mostly this policy is to get vacation off the books so that it's not a negative line in the financial reports.
Overall though for me it has been only a small difference, with me taking LESS vacation than normal. That's because I don't normally take a lot of vacation unless I'm in danger of losing it. So typically it's vacation at holiday time. My real problem is that I don't plan ahead a lot and tell the boss "I will definitely be on vacation in two months time", so I wait until there's a lull in the work and that very rarely happens. When I do have vacation I'd rather just stay home and be a vegetable than have all the stress of taking a trip and getting no sleep and trying to do as much sight seeing as possible in a short period of time and then return to work exhausted. And let's face it, I'd still want to head to work just to eat the free lunch and then go home again, but someone would stop me in the halls.
At a previous company I did get all vacation granted on 1/1. It was sort of nice since you could use it any time, instead of using it as a huge block in december or remembering to always have a 2 week buffer accrued. But you got the pressure from HR to spend it (and there was a cap which meant you couldn't just let it roll over like phone minutes). When I was laid off there it was February so they still had to pay me the full year's worth of vacation, which was pretty sweet.
As opposed to a previous company where they had a forced shutdown day once a week for a summer, before I had accrued any vacation at all, so I ended up with a negative vacation balance (was never really sure what that would mean if I left the job still owing them some days).