re: EDIT: Should employees be allowed unpaid leave if their work is covered?

Another point thats important is there have been several in-depth studies into how consistently productive a human can actually be.

On the small scale, the human mind can be productive in bursts of say 20 mins at a time. Ill freely admit of the 40 hours a week I work, 18-24 of those are productive. Thats true for most. The mind wanders. Things distract you.

This belief that people can work 52 weeks a year, 5 days a week, 8+ hours a day, is unfounded in actual science. Its not more or less productive. Often it actually is less. But companies cant let go of the suspicion that its costing them production/money.


My goal in life is to run my own company and in turn make beaucoups of money. But im going to implement several things. Staggered workdays/workweeks (i.e 6 hour days, 4 day weeks). Exorbitant vacation time. Studies show, and i suspect results will show that productivity will not fall off.

That is an extreme summary isn't how the policy actually is implemented

Ya it's a year long apprenticeship. The people we hire work in "research" as we call it and then move up after 12-18 months. Then we hire new people to fill the vacated slots. We have very little actual turnover, most of it from people moving to a new city.

So you're not hiring actual professionals under this policy. Got it.

Best description would be data analysis, we produce technical reports mainly for financial firms, banks, litigation and some government work in addition to the occassional private client.

Ya, it's pretty closely associated with that but it's not an investment firm. An analogy would be like an oilfield services provider is to the oil companies.

I wish I could help but they just let go of 2 people. Not very excited about the econimc outlook in Louisiana for the next year.

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If you're hiring for investment banking or equity research, I would like a job and be happy to take no vacation year 1...

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Exactly, most reasonable college grads with good STEM degrees are willing to work a year with no vacation. Their first year is learning and training, and add very little, if any value to the company and meanwhile get good benefits, pay and actually learning a skill they would not get elsewhere.

Amazon is an amazing company, but read up on their draconian work hours, vacation policies and boot camp mentality. Amazingly, young college grads go to work there in droves due to the experience they gain. Not everyone wants to be pampered when they don't have any marketable skills to offer.

Investment banking isn't even remotely representative of an average job in either pay or schedule; their idea of reasonable work/life balance is so far out of whack with most other fields. With that said, I would do it.

I'm glad we got some civil discussion in here at the end, I'm gonna exit before it turns again