The commentary article, “The business case for unlimited vacation” is about a new policy that the author has implemented in his Canadian technology company during the beginning of 2016 in hopes of attracting highly skilled employees. Jeff Booth, the co-founder and CEO of BuildDirect, is providing more freedom to his employees by giving them unlimited vacation. This is an approach to reduce stress among his staff, encourage productivity, and essentially to also keep his current highly skilled employees. Although Booth believes this policy isn’t an effective strategy for all companies, he believes it will benefit his and that his employees will not take advantage and freeload (Booth, 2016).
Although Jeff Booth’s policy is a business risk, …show more content…
By doing so, the company can ensure their employees will not take this policy for granted by abusing the luxury and decrease their productivity level. The first step of the performance management process is to determine employee’s performance expectations and goals. This step looks at the individual’s task and contextual performance which both involve one’s contribution to the company (Booth, 2016). This policy has been growing among a few companies, such as Netflix, LinkedIn, Evernote, and Pocket. Similar to Booth’s perspective, Netflix also believes it is important to provide their employees with freedom and to trust they will balance their job’s task and time off. On the contrary, employees may not even take the advantage to relax when they need to because of the fear of losing their job. Perhaps they may have taken too much time off or they’re unsure what is the right amount of days to take off (Gillies, 2015). Thus, this policy could motivate employees to improve their productivity, such that they earned the vacation …show more content…
Stress can lead to many consequences in the work field such as a decline in productivity, an increase in the number of times an individual has either skipped work or arrived late, an increase risk in getting fired due to lack of performance… etc. This is one of the issues Booth is hoping to prevent with his new policy of unlimited vacation. A method to alleviate job stress is for the individual to take a break. During one’s time off, they would be able to get more sleep, be able to incorporate a better diet in their life, and relax (Dessler, Chhinzer, & Cole, 2014). Since an individual is able to do many things to reduce stress while on vacation, it shows that job stress reduction starts with vacation days. In this case, Booth is doing his role as a CEO because he is identifying stress among his staff and finding ways to increase his employees’ productivity, while also providing his employees with more freedom to manage their own time. This isn’t only beneficial for the staff but also the company itself, such that workers would have more motivation, accountability, and focus (Booth,
Although Jeff Booth’s policy is a business risk, …show more content…
By doing so, the company can ensure their employees will not take this policy for granted by abusing the luxury and decrease their productivity level. The first step of the performance management process is to determine employee’s performance expectations and goals. This step looks at the individual’s task and contextual performance which both involve one’s contribution to the company (Booth, 2016). This policy has been growing among a few companies, such as Netflix, LinkedIn, Evernote, and Pocket. Similar to Booth’s perspective, Netflix also believes it is important to provide their employees with freedom and to trust they will balance their job’s task and time off. On the contrary, employees may not even take the advantage to relax when they need to because of the fear of losing their job. Perhaps they may have taken too much time off or they’re unsure what is the right amount of days to take off (Gillies, 2015). Thus, this policy could motivate employees to improve their productivity, such that they earned the vacation …show more content…
Stress can lead to many consequences in the work field such as a decline in productivity, an increase in the number of times an individual has either skipped work or arrived late, an increase risk in getting fired due to lack of performance… etc. This is one of the issues Booth is hoping to prevent with his new policy of unlimited vacation. A method to alleviate job stress is for the individual to take a break. During one’s time off, they would be able to get more sleep, be able to incorporate a better diet in their life, and relax (Dessler, Chhinzer, & Cole, 2014). Since an individual is able to do many things to reduce stress while on vacation, it shows that job stress reduction starts with vacation days. In this case, Booth is doing his role as a CEO because he is identifying stress among his staff and finding ways to increase his employees’ productivity, while also providing his employees with more freedom to manage their own time. This isn’t only beneficial for the staff but also the company itself, such that workers would have more motivation, accountability, and focus (Booth,