Full-time #Microsoft employees in the #USA will receive unlimited #vacation
Microsoft is changing its vacation policy for its full-time employees in the US. Employees will need to coordinate the leave with the manager, but it is not necessary to formally fix its duration. In addition to unlimited vacation, employees will have standard days off, sick leave, etc.
The innovation will come into effect on January 16. Those who work hourly or remotely will not have such #privileges.
@Ronico I wish people would stop treating “unlimited time off” as a good change. I know it sounds great. Unlimited vacation! Who wouldn’t like!
In practice, it’s not great. _No one_ in the US feels they can take as much vacation as they like. So, everyone tends to not take it early in the year. And if laid off in the year, they’re paid nothing for that untaken vacation.
This policy primarily benefits employers, not employees.
@Ronico It would be an improvement if they require employees to take some of that 'unlimited' vacation.
Most companies rollout that policy to great fanfare, only to discourage taking it, or limiting it to the maximum allowed under the old policy.
@TomWild @Ronico @introversion
Agreed...I also wonder why the limitation on remote workers. I partially understand if an employee is non-exempt, contractual, or temporary, but why does the "benefit" of unlimited vacation not apply to remote workers?
For the sake of public relations, it looks fantastic and progressive but, in practice, I don't see it being handy or useful. We'll see where this one goes.