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Would you prefer to choose your own number of vacation days?

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A growing number of employees at companies with "no-vacation" or "open-ended-time-off" policies are deciding how much time they dare take off as peak summer vacation season approaches. Workers get no guaranteed amount, or official limit, of vacation time, but they have to get time off approved and generally have to make sure things go smoothly in their absence. Some employers promote this as liberating, saying their workplaces are so flexible that old-fashioned constraints such as assigned time off aren't needed. But others say the lack of guidelines fuels a tendency to work all the time.

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    • 9 days ago

    If hard for me to believe that employees buy into this concept. By allowing employees to determine their own number of days you have given the unscrupulous employer another tool by which can be turned around on you during your evaluation.

    "Ms Smith I can see in your evaluation that you taken your 2 weeks during our busy period. Where as John here stayed to support our efforts."

    As goes our nation: The velvet glove over the iron fist.

    Allow the employee a pre-determine amount of time for vacation period. It will reduce the stress and the feeling of being single out and knowing that each employee has been dealt a fair hand.

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    • 8 days ago
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    This could be a way to relax the stessful work enviornment that many Americans face. If an employer pays you for 2 weeks vacation, but you can take as much additional time off as you want without getting paid, it is a better deal. I personally would like to work 4 day workweeks in the summer and fall, and take the week of Thanksgiving and Christmas off as well. Throw in a week or two of vacation on top of that time off = happy employee.

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