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采用“无限休假”政策后,员工反而不敢休假了

采用“无限休假”政策后,员工反而不敢休假了

Nicholas Gordon 2022-05-25
这个政策反而会导致员工的精神更加紧张。

目前,很多大公司都在用“无限休假”这招来吸引人才,但是一家英国公司却已经摒弃了这种做法。因为它发现这个政策反而会导致员工的精神更加紧张,在休不休、何时休、休多久问题上的无所适从,只会让他们更感焦虑。

英国招聘公司Unknown的创始人奥利·斯科特于5月17日在LinkedIn上发布了一篇贴子称,他的公司将取消无限休假政策,改为每人每年可以享受32天的带薪假。

斯科特指出:“没有人一年休假超过21天。”无限休假政策没有达到鼓励人们多休假的效果。在英国,几乎所有工人每年都能够依法休带薪假28天以上。也就是说,在实行了无限休假政策后,Unknown公司员工实际上休的假反而更少了。

虽然美国法律并未规定工人每年必须带薪休假多少天以上,但根据美国劳工统计局(U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)的数据,2017年,美国私企工人在入职一年后,平均可以享受10天的带薪休假。

无限休假,顾名思义,就是指不限制员工每年的带薪假天数。这种福利在科技界较为流行,Netflix和赛富时(Salesforce)等公司都采用了这种做法。很多美国工人也想享受这一福利。今年2月,哈里斯民调(Harris Poll)为《财富》杂志进行的一项调查显示,半数美国工人甚至愿意接受较低的工资,以换取无限休假权。

如今,很多非科技企业也开始接受“无限休假”的理念。一份内部备忘录显示,投行界大佬高盛集团(Goldman Sachs Group)也将从5月1日起,允许其高管“在需要的时候随时休假,而不必受到固定的假期天数限制”。

但是有些实行了无限休假的公司发现,员工由于缺乏明确的预期,有时甚至不敢履行休假的权利了。高盛集团似乎也意识到了这个问题,所以该公司还出台了一条规定,要求到2023年,员工每年至少应该休假三周,包括一次不少于五天的连续休假。

斯科特在帖子中写道,无限休假政策出台后,Unknown公司的员工普遍陷入一种迷茫。大家都在想:“我究竟休多少天才合适?”

斯科特说:“‘无限休假’并不等于真的无限。”(财富中文网)

译者:朴成奎

目前,很多大公司都在用“无限休假”这招来吸引人才,但是一家英国公司却已经摒弃了这种做法。因为它发现这个政策反而会导致员工的精神更加紧张,在休不休、何时休、休多久问题上的无所适从,只会让他们更感焦虑。

英国招聘公司Unknown的创始人奥利·斯科特于5月17日在LinkedIn上发布了一篇贴子称,他的公司将取消无限休假政策,改为每人每年可以享受32天的带薪假。

斯科特指出:“没有人一年休假超过21天。”无限休假政策没有达到鼓励人们多休假的效果。在英国,几乎所有工人每年都能够依法休带薪假28天以上。也就是说,在实行了无限休假政策后,Unknown公司员工实际上休的假反而更少了。

虽然美国法律并未规定工人每年必须带薪休假多少天以上,但根据美国劳工统计局(U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)的数据,2017年,美国私企工人在入职一年后,平均可以享受10天的带薪休假。

无限休假,顾名思义,就是指不限制员工每年的带薪假天数。这种福利在科技界较为流行,Netflix和赛富时(Salesforce)等公司都采用了这种做法。很多美国工人也想享受这一福利。今年2月,哈里斯民调(Harris Poll)为《财富》杂志进行的一项调查显示,半数美国工人甚至愿意接受较低的工资,以换取无限休假权。

如今,很多非科技企业也开始接受“无限休假”的理念。一份内部备忘录显示,投行界大佬高盛集团(Goldman Sachs Group)也将从5月1日起,允许其高管“在需要的时候随时休假,而不必受到固定的假期天数限制”。

但是有些实行了无限休假的公司发现,员工由于缺乏明确的预期,有时甚至不敢履行休假的权利了。高盛集团似乎也意识到了这个问题,所以该公司还出台了一条规定,要求到2023年,员工每年至少应该休假三周,包括一次不少于五天的连续休假。

斯科特在帖子中写道,无限休假政策出台后,Unknown公司的员工普遍陷入一种迷茫。大家都在想:“我究竟休多少天才合适?”

斯科特说:“‘无限休假’并不等于真的无限。”(财富中文网)

译者:朴成奎

Even as major companies embrace the idea of unlimited leave to woo talent, one U.K. firm is ditching the practice after finding that the policy actually caused more employee burnout, as staff felt too anxious to dictate their own schedules.

In a LinkedIn post published on Mat 17, Ollie Scott, founder of U.K. recruitment firm Unknown, said that the company was scrapping its unlimited leave policy and will now grant everyone a flat 32 days of paid vacation.

“No one took more than 21 days a year,” Scott wrote, noting that the unlimited leave policy did not actually encourage people to take more holiday. In the U.K., virtually all workers are legally entitled to a minimum of 28 days paid vacation, which means that Unknown’s workers may have actually taken less time off under an unlimited leave policy than they might have done with a set leave policy.

(While the U.S. does not set a statutory minimum for paid leave, private sector workers had an average of 10 days of paid leave after one year of employment in 2017, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.)

Unlimited leave—giving employees the flexibility to take time off whenever they want and not limiting them to a set number of vacation days—is a popular benefit in the tech sector, with companies like Netflix and Salesforce adopting the practice. And Americans say they want it—a Harris poll for Fortune conducted in February found that half of U.S. workers would accept a lower salary in exchange for unlimited time off.

Non-tech firms are also starting to embrace the idea of unlimited leave, with investment bank Goldman Sachs letting its senior managers “take time off when needed without a fixed vacation day entitlement” starting from May 1, according to an internal memo.

Yet workers in firms that offer unlimited leave have complained that a lack of clear expectations can discourage people from exercising their right to take a vacation. Goldman Sachs seems to have recognized this problem, as the bank will also mandate that, by 2023, employees spend at least three weeks per year away from their desks, including one consecutive five-day period.

Scott wrote that, for Unknown, unlimited PTO created “a general anxiety of ‘yeah but like, actually how much [leave] can I take?’”

“Unlimited didn’t exactly mean unlimited," noted Scott.

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