If the companies of the future are to be truly competitive in the market, they must be much smaller, more agile, lighter and, above all, more flexible. Microsoft understood this perfectly well that from now on they would no longer require a certain number of days off from their employees. Following in the footsteps of Adobe, Salesforce, Oracle, LinkedIn (formerly owned by Microsoft) and Netflix, the company founded by Bill Gates will introduce “discretionary time off” (Dto) or “discretionary time off” for all employees, but only in the States. Therefore, potentially unlimited vacations for employeeswho will no longer be required to accumulate days off before they can use them, forever changing the work-vacation cycle that has characterized the business world in recent decades.
“How, when and where we do our work has changed radically.explains in a note Kathleen Hogan, director of human resources at Microsoft, who broke the news via internal email and has long invested in improving smart work. was a natural step.” According to Corriere, the new policy will also affect new hires, who will no longer have to wait until they have accrued vacation time to take vacation time. This new corporate social security system will naturally have significant advantages also at the expense of the bureaucratic point of view, since administrative activities will be streamlined. Less paperwork, but from a certain point of view, also less protection, since workers who are laid off or laid off will not be compensated for accrued and unused vacations. However, a bonus, the amount of which is not yet known, will be provided for accrued and unused holidays.probably in the form of a lump sum payment in April.
The new policy also includes another major change with the introduction of 10 corporate holidays, non-working days, absence from work due to illness and mental health, as well as absence from work as a jury or due to bereavement of the family. The new policy is part of a vision for achieving performance goals in a fast-growing but also booming sector such as technology, which has seen a peak in layoffs in recent months. Microsoft alone fired 1,000 people in 2022, or 1% of its workforce, Twitter saw 3,700 staff cuts, and Meta and Amazon had 11,000 and 18,000 defections, respectively. The new system, which so far only affects offices in the United States, is certainly an excellent calling card for attract young talents however, it also has disadvantages, primarily due to the hyperproductivity model, which tends to discourage solo rest days, especially when working in a team, in favor of long and strenuous work periods after which one can indulge in rest. long awaited vacation. Whether it will be better or worse, time will tell.
Source: Elle