Everyone Wants to Work Here by Maura Thomas

Author:Maura Thomas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks

Learn from Others’ Mistakes

If you choose to eliminate your formal vacation policy that requires specifying and tracking the number of days off, it’s important to ensure that an unlimited vacation policy doesn’t actually turn into no vacation for your employees.

This happened at Netflix, when it was one of the first companies to embrace an unlimited vacation policy. CEO Reed Hastings wrote about this policy in his book No Rules Rules, and the years it took the company to get it right.

He offers two pieces of advice, outlined in an article for Inc. magazine.x His first piece of advice reinforces the influence of leaders that is illustrated throughout this book. He writes, “In the absence of a policy, the amount of vacation people take largely reflects what they see their boss and colleagues taking.”

His second piece of advice is that leaders should frequently discuss two things with the team:

Appropriate and inappropriate behaviors around vacation

Parameters for the policy, such as how many people in a department can be out at one time and how much advance notice is required

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