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Re:Amazon boss Jeff Bezos defends company's workplace culture by virmundi on Monday August 17, 2015 @09:36AM (#10072825)
A client had an interesting system along this line. Every employee was required to leave for one week to make sure that day to day operations continued without interruption in their absence. As result, everyone took at least one week of vacation. Often they would take two at this time.
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Re:Amazon boss Jeff Bezos defends company's workplace culture by swillis16 on Monday August 17, 2015 @10:56AM (#10073396)
Was the client in the finance field? I've heard of something similar be used to ensure that employees weren't doing anything 'fishy'.
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Re:Amazon boss Jeff Bezos defends company's workplace culture by virmundi on Monday August 17, 2015 @11:43AM (#10073740)
No, government contracting.I think they were burned in the past when someone was hit by a bus, so to speak
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Re:Amazon boss Jeff Bezos defends company's workplace culture by antrix on Monday August 17, 2015 @09:48AM (#10072903)
"Compulsory time off" is actually required by law in some regulated industries such as finance.
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