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Brickbat

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13. The small business I work for has unlimited time off.

Reply to Turborama (Original post)

Thu Sep 25, 2014, 10:17 AM

Sep 2014

It's awesome. ETA: It's awesome in that it works. We're focused on results -- projects finished on time and under budget -- instead of how many hours a butt is in a chair throughout the day. If you get your work done early in a day, you can either work ahead or be done. If you want time off, you put it on the calendar and it's approved. We're small enough that we manage ourselves so as not to all go on vacation at once.

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Richard Branson: Why we’re letting Virgin staff take as much holiday (vacation) as they want [View all] Turborama Sep 2014 OP

That's the point: "or, for that matter, their careers!" DetlefK Sep 2014 #1

For a minute I thought they were letting only the virgins do it. woo me with science Sep 2014 #2

Get back to me when warehouse crew gets the same..... daleanime Sep 2014 #7

Thank you. woo me with science Sep 2014 #8

I noted that too. CaptainTruth Sep 2014 #14

For sure! mountain grammy Sep 2014 #17

Excellent! daleanime Sep 2014 #18

That's excellent news, thans for sharing! Turborama Sep 2014 #20

Imagine that - sanity in the workplace. K&R nt TBF Sep 2014 #3

NB: It's just Branson's private staff CJCRANE Sep 2014 #4

'So far' being the operative phrase. According to the last sentence, he would like to roll it out... Turborama Sep 2014 #5

Only salaried employees? Figures. It's the hourly ones who really need a catbyte Sep 2014 #6

And the hourly employees are the ones..... daleanime Sep 2014 #9

At my company hourly employees have "endless vacation" RedCappedBandit Sep 2014 #11

Some of the hourly ones are covered by collective bargaining agreements. Brickbat Sep 2014 #12

Netflix Operations and Care and Repair are probably the only hourly employees snooper2 Sep 2014 #19

I'm flying Virgin in a few weeks. They had better have enough staff! vanlassie Sep 2014 #10

The small business I work for has unlimited time off. Brickbat Sep 2014 #13

Right. Diremoon Sep 2014 #15

Translation: my staff has so much dirt on me Dreamer Tatum Sep 2014 #16