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Ask HN: Which are the best Vacation Policies you've ever heard about?

5 pointsby AngelaCoisover 10 years ago
Hi, My name is Angela Cois and I&#x27;m Cofounder at LastRoom, a travel booking platform for smart companies (www.lastroom.com). I&#x27;m doing a research about vacation policy models within startups and I&#x27;m going to share them in a series of posts on Medium. This is the first post I wrote to explain the reasons why I’m analyzing this topic: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@angiecois&#x2F;dear-santa-this-year-i-just-want-to-break-from-the-grid-dda3fc89e49a Which are the best vacation policies you&#x27;ve ever heard? Do you have concrete examples or startups&#x27; founders to introduce to me? Are you working for a company that you consider a great example? I&#x27;d like to know more about it! This is a quick survey to explain your company case: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;lastroom.com&#x2F;forms&#x2F;d&#x2F;1iJHcseis93Qs5l6YdnXi__o0_JmOgSLa7oRdkOFNZe4&#x2F;viewform?c=0&amp;w=1<p>Thanks for your help guys!

2 comments

jtfairbankover 10 years ago
42 floors has an interesting mandatory 2 weeks vacation when you start working there. [0]<p>Paperplanes has a mandatory minimum vacation policy on top of their unlimited vacation policy, in order to prevent employees from feeling like they can never take a break since there&#x27;s always more to do (a common issue with unlimited vacation policies).<p>As for my own startup, we&#x27;re still super early stage so its &quot;unlimited&quot; but I don&#x27;t foresee us being able to take a break anytime soon. :&#x2F;<p>[0]: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com.au/42-floors-vacation-policy-2013-4" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com.au&#x2F;42-floors-vacation-policy-...</a> [1]: <a href="http://www.paperplanes.de/2014/12/10/from-open-to-minimum-vacation-policy.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paperplanes.de&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;10&#x2F;from-open-to-minimum-va...</a>
nickfromseattleover 10 years ago
Moz pays you to take a vacation (up to $3,000). <a href="http://moz.com/rand/keeping-amazing-people-on-the-team/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;moz.com&#x2F;rand&#x2F;keeping-amazing-people-on-the-team&#x2F;</a>