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My coworker says a friend of his works for Harley-Davidson, and they (salaried staff, not factory workers) have unlimited vacation. They're no longer required to work a certain number of hours, they're only required to get their work done.
This sounds like a way to accommodate the new workforce and their style of working. A way to deal with a staff that works from home anyway, where there's no good way to determine how much time they spend working (other than outright spying on them, which, even to management, doesn't feel good).
This sounds like it could easily go badly for the worker. Ideally, you and your manager work together to balance your workload. But this requires a talented manager and a worker who wants to do a good job. In reality a manager can easily be unaware of how unbalanced your workload is, in either direction. But even worse, if you have a boss that doesn't like you, they can just give you more work. Or if you don't understand your own workload, then you might not ever be able to take time off.
In the before-times, we earned paid time off by working for a company for a long time. From here out, we learn over time how to be able to budget the time off? Different method, similar results? Or maybe the younger professionals will get more time off than they would have in previous times? I'm good with that.
This sounds like a way to accommodate the new workforce and their style of working. A way to deal with a staff that works from home anyway, where there's no good way to determine how much time they spend working (other than outright spying on them, which, even to management, doesn't feel good).
This sounds like it could easily go badly for the worker. Ideally, you and your manager work together to balance your workload. But this requires a talented manager and a worker who wants to do a good job. In reality a manager can easily be unaware of how unbalanced your workload is, in either direction. But even worse, if you have a boss that doesn't like you, they can just give you more work. Or if you don't understand your own workload, then you might not ever be able to take time off.
In the before-times, we earned paid time off by working for a company for a long time. From here out, we learn over time how to be able to budget the time off? Different method, similar results? Or maybe the younger professionals will get more time off than they would have in previous times? I'm good with that.
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