A few days before the start of the new school year, would you like to take a few more weeks of vacation? In some companies, this is possible thanks to unlimited vacations. Based on individual responsibility, this system allows employees to take as many days off as they wish during the year. The only constraints are to achieve their objectives and not to burden other team members with their absence, who reserve the right to refuse the leave requested by a colleague. This will limit excesses. Result: in fact, employees entitled to unlimited vacations take only slightly more vacation than the average. What's the difference? More flexibility, and therefore less stress, especially when it comes to dealing with the small unexpected events of daily life.
Nabil Khatib Not really. You can't generalize UN-lmited vacation. There should be some LIMIT in all unLIMITed things whether its vacation or anything else.
If the vacations are target oriented, then why not?
The vacations can be given as a bonus to an employee who has been asked to complete a targeted task within a stipulated time. If he/she completes the task to the satisfaction of the employers, then it is a good idea to grant the remaining days of this period as a bonus to such employee. This will help to increase competition within the organization with such policy.
Nabil Khatib
Hello.
Thank you for the question.
Unlimited vacations can be allowed, when linked to targets. But it has been seen that no organization wants to allow unlimited vacations to its employees. The reason behind that is that in the modern world most activities are group oriented activities. It is the coordination of different departments like operations, legal, marketing, accounts, finance, administration, PR, advertising etc. that we can achieve success.
In India, in the banking sector particularly, unlimited vacations is being experimented with, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, reversal of job roles has been made mandatory. So all employees are developing skills and experience to work in any department when asked to do so. This is making the HR manager's job easier. When one employee goes for an unlimited vacation, the responsibilities of that employee can be taken by any other employee. This is still now under experimentation. If this experiment becomes successful, we may see implementation of unlimited vacations.
Still now it has not been employed anywhere in reality. It is just an imaginary proposition, which is getting ready for reality.
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Anamitra.
Nabil Khatib Not really. You can't generalize UN-lmited vacation. There should be some LIMIT in all unLIMITed things whether its vacation or anything else.
Models based on quality and not on quantity are the best ones because they guarantee a high standard of results. However, it is not possible for all activities to grant unlimited days of vacation.
This solution seems impossible to apply both theoretically and practically. Smart working and digital school can be solutions, together with the "patchy" closure of cities.
There is a limit for every thing. The word "unlimited" needs to be defined in this context. Leaves beyond a certain days will definitely lead to transfer of responsibility of a person who is taking leave to another person who is regular. It can be noticed when we take long leave, it is our tendency to continue leaves which is quite natural phenomenon in human being. The school children who feel bored or over stressed in studies try to take more leave while the students who enjoy learning new things and meeting old and new friends, will be enthusiastic in joining the school. Similar things are with person working in an organisation. Repetitive work and lack of opportunity for learning and growth as well as the bulling supervisors create resistance to discontinue the holidays and these are also the reasons for attrition. unlimited leave is not the solution and it can not bring efficiency and effectiveness in a person as well in an organisation rather better organisational climate and culture along with right kind of leadership are prerequisite for performance. Hence, unlimited vacation can not be generalized.
Thank you dear Dr. Muhammad Yousuf for your great answer.
This will be an innovative idea to give employees some days off as an recognition for completting their project tasks before the deadline.
Thank you Dear Balaji Dhopte
for your answer. I hope to get this discussion more bigger
I agree with you dear Dr. Matteo Nioi . Thank you for your renewed answer !
Dear Dr. Pietro Emanuele Napoli ,
Thank you very much for your Renewed Answer!! I agree with You;
Some European Ministries of Education launched in the last decade a National Plan for Digital Schools (In italian: Piano Nazionale Scuola Digitale) to mainstream Information Communication Technology (ICT) in classrooms and use technology as a catalyser of innovation in country's education, hopefully conducing to new teaching practices, new models of school organisation, new products and tools to support quality teaching.
I agree with Dr. Napoli. Unlimited vacation is not realistic to be implemented. With the technology advancement, flexible working has been implemented everywhere. And it has been known to improve job satisfaction and performance. Why risk organization performance with offering benefit which, just like you mentioned yourself, might not be implemented by the employees.
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