Re:Unlimited Vacation and Other Forms of Guilt-Based Management
by georgeecollins on Friday August 26, 2016 @02:12PM
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I recently worked at a "no vacation policy" aka unlimited vacation company. Anecdote is not data, but here are my experiences:
- Like many startups, people did not take much vacation.
- It was probably cheaper and certainly easier for them not to reimburse you for unused vacation.
- When in my second year I proposed taking a second trip (two weeks off total) I could sense the disapproval. I'm a reasonably senior person and taking two weeks off a year does not seem like that much to me.
- Vacation was sometimes the precursor to giving notice. People knew they were leaving, so it became safe to take a vacation and then give notice at the end of it.
- Like many startups, people did not take much vacation.
- It was probably cheaper and certainly easier for them not to reimburse you for unused vacation.
- When in my second year I proposed taking a second trip (two weeks off total) I could sense the disapproval. I'm a reasonably senior person and taking two weeks off a year does not seem like that much to me.
- Vacation was sometimes the precursor to giving notice. People knew they were leaving, so it became safe to take a vacation and then give notice at the end of it.
I would avoid companies with this policy.