I wonder if we're going to eventually wind up with policies similar to commercial aircraft crews. Like, for every N weeks of work you are required to take Y time off. It seems like the logical endgame (even though I hate vacations, and would be annoyed by being required to take them).
I don't think that the companies who are advertising unlimited vacation are doing so as a way to covertly pressure their employees to not take vacation; even if it might be having that effect unintentionally. Or maybe some are, but I can give most of them the benefit of the doubt.
I still have this nagging feeling in the back of my head that the eventual makeup of businesses is a sea of 1099's, self-organizing around particular projects and then dissolving at the project's conclusion. People seem to have way too adversarial a view of employers for this not to seem like the future.
I don't think that the companies who are advertising unlimited vacation are doing so as a way to covertly pressure their employees to not take vacation; even if it might be having that effect unintentionally. Or maybe some are, but I can give most of them the benefit of the doubt.
I still have this nagging feeling in the back of my head that the eventual makeup of businesses is a sea of 1099's, self-organizing around particular projects and then dissolving at the project's conclusion. People seem to have way too adversarial a view of employers for this not to seem like the future.