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My son's US-based employer does this as well. Employees have to take 1-week per quarter and they're removed from Slack/Outlook for that period. I hadn't heard
by alistairSH 4y ago
My son's US-based employer does this as well. Employees have to take 1-week per quarter and they're removed from Slack/Outlook for that period. I hadn't heard of anybody else doing this until now.
That said, I've been at my employer 20+ years now and I've been contacted on vacation maybe 3 times and none required me to work beyond a 5 min phone call (none required logging into any systems remotely). Obv I'd prefer this didn't happen, but int the overall scheme of things, not bad.
- rockostrich 4y agoSame here at less time (~6 years and I think I've been contacted once while on vacation). It's definitely a culture thing and if you have a lot of siloing then you're going to have this problem.
- DoughnutHole 4y agoThis is common enough in financial institutions, although the purpose is less employee wellbeing and more that cutting people off from company systems for a while is a good way to uncover fraud.
- alistairSH 4y agoOh yeah, totally forgot about them. But like you said, that's for fraud prevention more than employee sanity.
- moneywoes 4y agoWhat company?
- alistairSH 4y agoMy son? Don't recall. Something managed services, he's an IT engineer/project manager. Mine? Ellucian.