No more accrued vacation time starting on January 2018. The new business strategy is to keep the teams perpetually understaffed and so it will be difficult to take vacation.
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It's bull. The only reason to do this is to decrease the cost if layoffs.
A lot of people will anyway be going on unlimited vacations before the end of year. The new policy will apply to the rest. Rinse and repeat.
Look around here on layoff, it's littered with #UnlimitedVacation rants...
a quick search returns the threads below - I used https://www.google.com/search?q="unlimited+vacation"+site:TheLayoff.com
Seagate - 17 replies
"Unlimited vacation"-- Like or Don't Like?
HGST - no replies
"Unlimited Vacation Policy" is the latest dirty trick to reduce benefits
Oracle - 3 replies
There goes vacation.......
Qualcomm - 3 replies
Implement "Unlimited Vacation Policy" to reduce benefits
Honeywell - 19 replies
unlimited vacation
Honeywell - 23 replies
How's the "Unlimited" Vacation Policy working out for all of you exempt employees?
Walmart - no replies
Unlimited Vacation
Honeywell - 5 replies
Unlimited Vacation Time...it's the joke we thought it was.
Honeywell - 2 replies
Unlimited vacation and PR
This is so that they don't have to carry the vacation on the books as an expense or pay it out when you leave.
The manager has to approve time off. HR states that the amount of vacation time should be based on employee performance. It does not matter if you have been with the company for 1 week or 30 years.