'Unlimited Vacation' Not So Unlimited For Some

The WSJ looks at the practice of open-ended vacation plans, or the idea that employees can take as much time as they need as long as their work gets done. (One media company that does this fairly well is The Motley Fool, covered elsewhere on this site. In fact, The Motley Fool even requires random employees to take time off, through a monthly lottery that gives one winner per month two consecutive weeks of vacation.)

At some employers, this works well: “Some employers promote this as liberating, saying their workplaces are so flexible that old-fashioned constraints such as assigned time off aren’t needed.

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