CEO Pays His Employees $2,000 Extra To Spend On Vacation Claiming It Makes Them More Productive

Nov 18, 2019 by apost team

Mark Douglas is the CEO of a marketing and advertising company named SteelHouse, and he doesn't like to give any leeway to his employees about vacationing. Under his management, they must all go on vacation. He will allow them to divide the vacation days up into several short days, or they could take one long vacation per year. In any case, all employees at the company must get some time off to relax.

There are a lot of people who don't want to take vacations. Trips can be expensive, and many companies don't offer any pay or incentive to take time off. If people collect vacation bonuses, many of them would rather put the money to more productive use than paying for a vacation. This is especially true for people who are struggling with today's high cost of living or if they like to live a lavish lifestyle. Douglas disapproves of this use of vacation bonus. He insists that his employees use it to take a vacation.

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According to Today, Douglas said that his employees, for the most part, feel inclined to go on vacations. It reminds him of caged lions that refuse to leave their cage. Once they have adapted to life in a cage, they don't know how to be a wild animal anymore. When the employees of SteelHouse were told that they have unlimited vacation, they didn't quite know what to make of that.

The CEO decided that, in order to get his employees to take some time off, he would offer an incentive of $2,000 that only could be used if a person was going on vacation. The amount does not stipulate where or how they relax, as long as it's a vacation where they can relax and recharge.

Rather than telling people, they're allowed to take three weeks off, it seems more convincing if you say you have a $2,000 bonus that you can only have if you take a vacation trip. The money has to be spent on vacation. This sends a message that the company encourages employees to relax and enjoy themselves for a few weeks.

Trust is part of the equation when the company issues vacation pay. Douglas likes to instill a sense of trust in new employees as soon as they're hired. SteelHouse gives freedoms that other corporate jobs don't usually provide, and Douglas believes this instills a greater sense of trust toward their employer. In order to feel at ease about taking a trip, employees need to trust that the expenses will be reimbursed in a timely fashion. When employees return from their vacation, their expenses are reimbursed by the company out of the $2,000 bonus amount.

Douglas believes that other companies should follow this example in order to retain employees that will be more effective workers when they take time to relax and have fun. Between the years of 2013 and 2016, SteelHouse only had three employees leave the company. The ones that left did so because of reasons not related to the job, so, in effect, the company had no turnover in those years.

When people are treated like big shots, they tend to be happier about their career and the place where they work. This can only be accomplished when the employer has its people's interests at heart. A luxury vacation can do wonders for the soul and improve worker performance as well.

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