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Has any company with "unlimited" but tracked vacation actually revealed how many days their staff take? And what disparities there are between individuals and
by mattbee 13y ago
Has any company with "unlimited" but tracked vacation actually revealed how many days their staff take? And what disparities there are between individuals and departments?
I'd bet that it's overall _less_ time than companies where vacation is metered, but compulsory. e.g. mine in the UK is 25 to 32 days depending on time at the company, plus bank holidays, and you've got to take it.
Peer pressure must conspire to _reduce_ what people take, especially in companies that do "360 degree" peer reviews. And it would only take a hint of management pressure to make staff feel guilty about booking holidays (or cancelling those that they'd already booked).
For me "unlimited holidays" translates to "unlimited work hours", and I'd be suspicious of companies that promote it as a perk.
- 0x0539 13y agoI don't know of any official revelation but I did get a little insight into the amount of vacation taken at the company I work for when I had taken 'significantly more' vacation than the rest of my coworkers. The most anyone else took was around the 4 weeks mark. I had taken a little over 6 weeks and that was the upper limit that had my boss telling me I was taking too much vacation. I felt a little shafted by than since my last job was 5 weeks + sick time + bank holidays. So that's not a lot of information for you but that would confirm your suspicion that it is less. That said it does not translate to unlimited work hours but our work is contract work. We get contracted out to other companies so though we are expected to get the work done and sometimes work >8 hours the expectation is that it will average out to 8hours a day. Be it 4hours one day followed by two 10 hours days or what have you.