Amid the horror stories from some Amazon workers about postmidnight emails and people crying at their desks comes the seemingly alternate universe of Netflix, where people can take paid vacation when they want, for as long as they want.
Yes, "unlimited vacation" is a thing. It has been the policy at Netflix for years, and other companies large and small are increasingly trying it out. It's not as strange a thing as it may sound, though: Richard Branson explains the carrot and stick of unlimited vacation policies, which he adopted for his Virgin companies last fall:
The policy-that-isn't permits all salaried staff to take off whenever they want for as long as they want. There is no need to ask for prior approval and neither the employees themselves nor their managers are asked or expected to keep track of their days away from the office. It is left to the employee alone to decide if and when he or she feels like taking a few hours, a day, a week or a month off, the assumption being that they are … up to date on every project and that their absence will not in any way damage the business – or, for that matter, their careers!
The whole idea also provokes the question: given the choice of taking off all the time you wanted, how much time would you take off?
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