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It works OK, but there's two situations where it can go bad: 1. (Uncommon) People take off during crunch time 2. (Very common IME) People take off en masse du
by JBReefer 9y ago
It works OK, but there's two situations where it can go bad:
1. (Uncommon) People take off during crunch time
2. (Very common IME) People take off en masse during lulls, leaving a skeleton crew to handle blowups.
3. No vacation payout during layoffs
If you do 1 just to get out of work, you're a crappy coworker. People do 2, to be team players, but it can result in large waves of low staffing. 3 is a natural result, which is a major financial downside - the upside, of course, is that you can take much more vacation, and many do.
Even with the above, I like it. You can take mental health days and deal with family issues without that feeling of "begging for forgiveness"
- theptip 9y agoI think "unlimited vacation" should not be conflated with "vacation any time you want it". To avoid the pathological cases you mention above, managers still need to make sure that not too many vacations overlap. If expectations have been set that you can take vacation whenever you want (even during a crunch on a project that you're leading) without consideration of the business needs, I'd suggest that's a big mistake.
- antris 9y ago>If you do 1 just to get out of work, you're a crappy coworker Good coworkers work so that crunch time never comes up. Crappy coworkers shame others who refuse to participate in unhealthy work/life balance.
- praneshp 9y ago> Good coworkers work so that crunch time never comes up This is a very bad argument. The launch of a product is a critical time, whether you like it or not. Edit: Replaced crunch with critical, I don't think I understood the meaning of crunch.