The skeptic in me suspects that companies doing this are counting on group dynamics to bring the actual number of vacation days below the usual number.
I looked around on Google a bit for statistics, but I couldn't find them. I did find some research that mentions unlimited leave / vacation and they found that 1% of companies offered it last year, but they don't show how much people use it.
http://media.npr.org/assets/news/2010/08/11/survey.pdf
Some articles mention studies showing that productivity has gone up as a result of such a policy. Again, the skeptic in me wonders how much of that productivity is due to people taking less holidays. On the other hand, I rarely trust any metric of productivity anyway.
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The skeptic in me suspects that companies doing this are counting on group dynamics to bring the actual number of vacation days below the usual number.
I looked around on Google a bit for statistics, but I couldn't find them. I did find some research that mentions unlimited leave / vacation and they found that 1% of companies offered it last year, but they don't show how much people use it. http://media.npr.org/assets/news/2010/08/11/survey.pdf
Some articles mention studies showing that productivity has gone up as a result of such a policy. Again, the skeptic in me wonders how much of that productivity is due to people taking less holidays. On the other hand, I rarely trust any metric of productivity anyway.