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There's a lot of companies in the world where "vacation" is offered, but the managers will many times terminate those who take it. All it takes is for one or t
by bb88 5y ago
There's a lot of companies in the world where "vacation" is offered, but the managers will many times terminate those who take it. All it takes is for one or two employees to be terminated after just getting back from a vacation to send a message to the rest of the employees.
The right to use benefits has to be enforced by the CEO. If people aren't using their vacations (and effectively losing them), then that sets the culture off on the wrong foot from the start.
- ZainRiz 5y agoSome companies I've been at swung in the opposite direction and I was really greatful for it. E.g. At Microsoft you have a max amount of vacation days that you can accrue before they start expiring, and managers get dinged whenever their directs have expiring vacation days. The result: Managers would encourage taking vacation
- bb88 5y agoYes, I absolutely agree with that, and that takes leadership to prioritize your employee's benefits at the same level of deliverables. It's easier to think that employee vacations are worthless as a manager since it doesn't actually contribute to any direct profit. But if you're an employee, and that was a selling point of joining the company, it certainly sucks when the promise of vacation could never be materialized -- because work was apparently too important.
- cstejerean 5y agoSome people add negative value and it’s sometimes not clear until they step away for a couple of weeks.
- bb88 5y agoI disagree. Either you know what's going on in your directs, or you don't know. If you don't know, you shouldn't be a manager, nor should you enjoy the salary premium that a manager gets.