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Sun Microsystems used to give employees the week between Christmas and New Year off, it was called Winter Break - probably a relic of its academic roots. It wa
by devchix 3y ago
Sun Microsystems used to give employees the week between Christmas and New Year off, it was called Winter Break - probably a relic of its academic roots. It was its own thing, you didn't need to take PTO for it. I wonder which large employers still do this. All bets are off if you're doing billable hours. Retail is its own creature, though, you need to be open to make sales, so Patagonia is an outlier in their class.
- raincom 3y agoI think Apple gives all days off between Christmas and New Year. That's for employees, but not for contractors.
- bluedino 3y agoA lot of automotive factories in the US do a week or two shutdown over the holidays, but it's a "temporary layoff", not paid time off.
- pcl 3y agoIIRC it was a relic of their background as a hardware manufacturer — if everyone was off for a week at the same time, they could shut down entire lines, thus saving on the baseline costs of running their manufacturing processes.
- georgeoliver 3y agoYep, I think Boeing still has a paid break.