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> Vacations allow employees to regenerate so they can elevate their productivity upon return. Sounds like 1975.
by Florin_Andrei 10y ago
> Vacations allow employees to regenerate so they can elevate their productivity upon return.
Sounds like 1975.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoWell, from the employer's point of view, that may well be true. I mean, it would be nice if employers insisted on vacations and good medical plans and other benefits because they saw their employees as human beings who had to be treated well. In practice, though, that's rare. You're more likely to get good treatment from a company because the company realizes that doing so is profitable than you are to get it because the company realizes that doing so is right.
- sokoloff 10y agoI do what's right for our employees because that is profitable. That doesn't make me a bad employer (IMO). You can bet that we mentally (and sometimes overtly) trade off improvements to salary vs long-term incentive vs office perks vs health care vs other benefits. I don't see any other rational way to get a stable outcome that benefits both sides. (A company that pays too much [cash or non-cash benefits] and goes out of business as a result hasn't helped anyone long-term.) We are competing every day to motivate and retain our engineers.