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Interesting approach and an enlightened way to manage staff.

There wouldn't be many organisations that could do this...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29356627

Interesting....but I'd predict what you will end up with is most people not taking their entitlement as who would gamble on

"feel(ing) 100% comfortable that they and their team are up to date on every project and that their absence will not in any way damage the business - or, for that matter, their careers!"

I'd be more inclined to see this as yet another move to push risk down from the organisation as a whole to the individual employee, but perhaps the working ethos and practices of SRB's 170 strong personal organisation would support this.

It does of course make it very easy to spot redundancy candidates... if someone has taken a lot of time away and the organisation hasn't ground to a halt, at what point do you start to ponder on whether you need them at all?

In practice I doubt there would be a huge take-up as it does not refer to it as paid holiday.
Most people might like the freedom but with no income 'unlimited leave' suddenly does not seem so attractive.

JCBR wrote:In practice I doubt there would be a huge take-up as it does not refer to it as paid holiday.
Most people might like the freedom but with no income 'unlimited leave' suddenly does not seem so attractive.

It's not that different to flexi time really

PaulS wrote:

JCBR wrote:In practice I doubt there would be a huge take-up as it does not refer to it as paid holiday.
Most people might like the freedom but with no income 'unlimited leave' suddenly does not seem so attractive.

It's not that different to flexi time really

Correct but fantastic PR y)

Easy PR yes but not well thought through. Typical RB jumping on an idea that works in a totally different industry. Maybe at Netflix you can be away and not missed (never an encouraging sign for your career).

'take as much as you want , when you want with no warning' is going to work really well at an airline I think.

Probably helps being a billionaire. Not sure - just a guess.

I wonder if they will use it as a recruiting tool. I know in some industries, more companies are adding these outside the box perks to draw candidates to them and sometimes from other competing companies. Not sure how competitive the industry is in terms of employment, and whether this sort of thing would be perceived as a benefit or not by those within it.