Sick Days, Personal Time, Holidays & Vacation? Why Not 'Free Time Off' Instead?
Let’s wrap up the week on a fun note, shall we?
When we read this piece on Forbes, we soared into the air with delight. (Okay, more like a little leap of joy but we digress.) Could this perhaps be a trend for other companies to follow?
According to Craig Malloy, CEO of Bloomfire, a social knowledge base application that enables teams to find, share and create content, staid corporate vacation and sick leave policies are ancient.
Remarking they “have always seemed silly to me,” the executive at the Austin-based company poses the million dollar question: “Why do our colleagues in Europe get far more vacation than Americans?”
Plus, considering more and more companies are forcing employees to use vacation days when they’re sick by lumping them into a PTO category (as in paid time off), people to come into work when they’re feeling sick and simultaneously spread their germs.
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