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NETFLIX LETS EMPLOYEES CHOOSE HOW MUCH VACATION THEY TAKE

SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS - When it comes to vacation, Netflix has a simple
policy: take as much as you'd like. Just make sure your work is done.
Employees at the online movie retailer often leave for three, four, even
five weeks at a time and never clock in or out. Vacation limits and
face-time requirements, says Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings, are
"a relic of the industrial age."

"The worst thing is for a manager to come in and tell me: 'Let's give
Susie a huge raise because she's always in the office.' What do I care?
I want managers to come to me and say: 'Let's give a really big raise to
Sally because she's getting a lot done' - not because she's chained to
her desk.". . .

Netflix's time off rules - or lack thereof - are part of a broad culture
of employee autonomy instilled in the company when Hastings founded it a
decade ago. The executives trust staffers to make their own decisions on
everything - from whether to bring their dog to the office to how much
of their salary they want in cash and how much in stock options. Workers
are treated, as chief talent Officer Patty McCord likes to say, as
adults.

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_5493698

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