By tossing the two-week standard in favor of an honor system with unlimited time off, some companies are seeing an exponential rise in productivity. Now, they just have to be mindful of staff burnout
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Feed SubscriptionHow to Avoid Confrontation… and Still Succeed
Conflicts rarely end well, so it's natural to want to avoid them. But you can't hide from them forever. For every hard-nosed, coldly logical businessperson there are hundreds of entrepreneurs just like us: Worried about how others perceive us and avoiding confrontation at all cost
Read More »How to Avoid Confrontation… and Still Succeed
Conflicts rarely end well, so it's natural to want to avoid them. But you can't hide from them forever.
Read More »Give Your Employees Unlimited Vacation (Yes, Really)
Will it improve company culture? Sure. But can giving workers all the time off they want also increase their productivity?
Read More »Give Your Employees Unlimited Vacation (Yes, Really)
Will it improve company culture?
Read More »Give Your Employees Unlimited Vacation (Yes, Really)
Will it improve company culture?
Read More »Video: Juice boxes for kids loaded with sugar: report
The Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity released a new report that shows juice boxes marketed to youths are filled with sugar. Michelle Miller reports. Also, registered dietician Keri Glassman discusses the report
Read More »Man Fired for Using Gun to Foil Robbery
A Walgreens pharmacist fires a gun, he says, in self-defense, and then is fired. A Michigan pharmacist is suing Walgreens after the chain fired him for shooting a concealed weapon during a break in
Read More »Can a Vacation Policy of No Policy be a Good Employee Policy?
It sounds like a dream, a company with a vacation or paid time off (PTO) policy that doesn’t restrict or enforce any rules around the number off days an employee can take off. That’s right, take 15, 20, 25+ days in a year – you decide. Believe it or not, there are a growing number of companies who have removed the restrictions on common time off policies and are giving employees the ability to essentially manage not only their work, but their time off.
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