Sounds like a wise plan. It would be very interesting to track the success of this company.

i wonder if people will actually start working more or longer hours because they feel guilty about taking time off.

"We have to make sure employees don't look at this as a head game where we're trying to keep them from taking any time off at all," she said.

That's the problem. If people think they're being judged on the amount of PTO they take, the more competitive may take little to none.

A Fark Handle: seems almost too rational. and that whole as-long-as-your-work-is-getting-done policy is clearly unamerican.

I'm a grad student and this is how we work. Won't say I'll make a ton, but when I have X amount of work to be done in a certain number of days no one cares when I do it so long as it gets done, and I show up at work proper when I want save a few meetings.

But then I also live in Holland where I theoretically get six weeks off but everyone takes off more, so unamerican indeed.

I used to meet sales forecast at Wedding Wire until I took an arrow to the knee

TheZorker: I used to have unlimited time off, then I took an arrow in the knee.

/someone had to

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oi_piss_me_off: i wonder if people will actually start working more or longer hours because they feel guilty about taking time off.

Or if they'll do so because it'll ensure more time off. Slick move by the company.

kanewil: This has been my companies policy for years for salaried managers. It works great for both the employer and employee. The company asks its managers to be flexible in their time working retail hours and some weekends, but in turn the company is good to the employee for their flexibility. In my 6 years with this company, I have yet to find somebody who has abused this policy. On average, most people take about 3-4 weeks worth of vacation time per year, typically split into a lot of 3 days off here, 4 days off there, etc....

But is that really 'good'?

I have 5 weeks vacation (23 years with the Company), [plus sick days].. We are required to plan a head our Vacation in January, BUT I personally take one month off in the summer... I prefer that to a couple days here or there whenever time and the job permits.

Summer is always a big time, and we know that - SO the company hires some summer students and some part times (usually retired former workers) to help carry the load so that people CAN have an extended time off.

Of course, here on Fark, I'm a dirty socialist parasite.... (Union - We're allowed 18% staff off at one time - Highest vacation entitlement is 6 weeks (28 years+) - Vacation list circulates by Senority - You make your first choice (no more than 4 weeks in a row), then it goes through everyone, comes back around for 2nd, 3rd, 4th choices etc.. What happens? Many high seniority people choose Xmas as first choice - which opens up summer dates for lower seniority people for their first choice.. Usually once the list has gone through everyone once, prime summer date are taken - If you took 2 weeks at Xmas as your first choice, you are not getting time in August no matter what your seniority is. - SO you make a choice - what's important to ME...Xmas or Summer? I choose summer! Some choose Xmas, some choose a couple weeks spring, couple weeks summer... Not many break it up into a few days here or there)