The San Jose Mercury News (yes my reading menu is quite extensive) had an interesting article the other day about Netflix's vacation policy. In short, they have none. Take off whenever you want, for as long as you want, just make sure you get your work done.
When it comes to vacation, Netflix has a simple policy: take as much as you'd like. Just make sure your work is done.
Employees at the online movie retailer often leave for three, four, even five weeks at a time and never clock in or out. Vacation limits and face-time requirements, says Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings, are "a relic of the industrial age."
"The worst thing is for a manager to come in and tell me: `Let's give Susie a huge raise because she's always in the office.' What do I care? I want managers to come to me and say: `Let's give a really big raise to Sally because she's getting a lot done' - not because she's chained to her desk."
Netflix, I like where your head's at, I'm totally behind this kind of policy. Now as its later pointed out in the article this policy only applies to the 300 or so salaried employees, not the hourly people who work in their distribution and customer service centers. Still, for a relatively small company, why not adapt such liberal leave policies? Employees would love it (I know I would) and if the work is getting done in a timely (and correct) fashion, where's the loss to the employer?
I should also point out that this article contains one of the lamer attempts I've ever seen to try and be "hip". To wit:
Across America, executives are searching for ways to keep experienced Baby Boomers at their companies and attract younger workers, many of whom are used to controlling which songs they listen to and where they get their news.
Those crazy kids, with there controlling music selection and reading the news where they want! What will they do next?!?!?
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