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Minimum Vacation

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Sysadmin1138 has a post today on minimum vacation policies, an interesting twist on the unlimited vacation policies many startups now have: The idea seems to be a melding of the best parts of unlimited and max. Employees are required to take a certain number of days off a year, and those days have to be full-disconnect days in which no checking in on work is done. Instead of using scarcity to urge people to take real vacations, it explicitly states you will take these days and you will not do any work on them. Sysadmin1138 expounds on several ways this is a cool idea. I agree. There are real benefits to forcing employees to go (and stay) completely away for …

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Take A Break

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I recently returned from a two week trip to New Orleans, for rest & relaxation. And it reconfirmed for me my suspicions that sometimes the best thing I can do, from a process & procedure standpoint, is to leave for a while. Banks usually have a mandatory absence policy as part of their internal controls. The United States’ Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) encourages all financial institutions to require employees to take no less than two weeks of vacation every year: During this time, their duties and responsibilities should be assumed by other employees. This basic control has proven to be an effective internal safeguard in preventing fraud. In addition, such a policy is viewed as a benefit to the …

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