Does Netflix Have the Cure for ‘Shrinking Vacation Syndrome’?

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  03.27.07 | 6:37 AM ET

Netflix’s salaried workers can take as much vacation time as they’d like, as long as they get their work done. Vacation limits and face-time requirements, Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings tells the San Jose Mercury News, are “a relic of the industrial age.” How progressive. Sounds like a great antidote to shrinking vacation syndrome, doesn’t it?

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3 Comments for Does Netflix Have the Cure for ‘Shrinking Vacation Syndrome’?

frank 03.27.07 | 8:58 AM ET

Best Buy has a similar program:

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/03/01/8401022/index.htm?postversion=2007031506

Rachel 03.27.07 | 6:10 PM ET

I love this idea, my only concern is that it’s so hard to actually find a time when “all the work is done.” Any word on how it’s working out?

jv 03.28.07 | 11:38 PM ET

I have reservations about this too. Where I work, “until all the work is done” could mean 80 hour weeks! I’m grateful that I can call it a day after 8 hours and take my alotted vacation time ... even if it is somewhat paltry.

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