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Re:Ask HN: How to attract perm Snr Engs when the contract ma... by teachrdan on Thursday May 06, 2021 @02:21PM (#27067229)
This is good for the company, too. It's a form of fraud detection. When employees take two weeks away in a block, the company can more easily detect ongoing fraud or other funny business going on. That's how a French rogue trader was finally caught:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444914904577615...

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Re:Ask HN: How to attract perm Snr Engs when the contract ma... by trcarney on Friday May 07, 2021 @12:41PM (#27077836)
Yeah, my mom works at a bank in the US and within her department they have to take off at least 2 weeks consecutively and only that one person in the department can be off during that time for just this reason. They use it as a yearly check to make sure there is no fraud going on.
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