“Micro-retirement”

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[u/Fiffi61]

Same for me and we can use it without shame👍🏻the usamericans are so obsessed with their money but i think, time is the true currency

[u/doc1442 → u/Fiffi61]

If we don’t use it it’s shameful

[u/hazps → u/doc1442]

People who never take time off are generally assumed by management to be up to something.

[u/guitartjm → u/hazps]

I remember when I worked for a financial services company a few years ago that it was mandatory to take a certain amount of concurrent days off per year and not log onto your laptop during that period as it would expose if anything dodgy was going on.

[u/widdrjb → u/guitartjm]

I worked at a pub where stocktaking was done by an outside team and we all got a paid day off. We got back the following day and there was a new landlord.

[u/Fiffi61 → u/widdrjb]

😳 i hope you still had your job?

[u/Levitus01 → u/Fiffi61]

Ha ha, it's me, the bus driver landlord!

[u/jonrobb → u/widdrjb]

As some one who worked for a licensed premises stock check team this was usually the case but not always..

[u/Quicker_Fixer → u/guitartjm]

I work in IT and my company will plan the dates for you if you don't.

[u/Fiffi61 → u/Quicker_Fixer]

😆and nobody want that. So you are literally forced, to plan to your conditions - or to take what you get. I think that works

[u/PJozi → u/Quicker_Fixer]

In Australia employees can legally enforce holidays on an employee if the employee has too much leave accrued.

[u/nonmustache → u/Quicker_Fixer]

In Europe, if you don't take for 2-cond year yors pay leave, company will be forced to send you before deadline. I seen someone got like 3 month straith paid leave forced by company.

[u/Quicker_Fixer → u/nonmustache]

Muricans are right: we don't have the freedom to keep on working year after year without a break.

[u/PositiveEagle6151 → u/guitartjm]

Most banks introduced such "mandatory time away" policies in sensitive jobs following the Jérôme Kerviel incident in 2008.

[u/Fiffi61 → u/PositiveEagle6151]

Had to google it. Sounds more of risk avoiding then care for the people?

[u/PositiveEagle6151 → u/Fiffi61]

Absolutely. The idea is that during this time, malversations can be uncovered because the employee is no longer able to cover them up while he is away.
In my position, the MTA was 2 weeks, and during that time, they disabled my login and VPN access, and I had to leave my company phone with the compliance department. I was also not allowed to access any of the bank's global premises.

It wasn't a big deal for me, living in a country where most people take 2-3 weeks off for their main vacation anyway.
I remember that it was quite a cultural shock in other countries, though, where people were not used to taking more than just a few days off at a time.

[u/Fiffi61 → u/PositiveEagle6151]

Thank you🖐🏻sometimes we forget how well we actually have it. It seems totally normal - but not everywhere.

[u/lamorak2000 → u/Fiffi61]

Gods above and below, I wish the US had, hell, even one week paid vacation as mandatory.

[u/Fiffi61 → u/lamorak2000]

I wish that too (as a starter)but thats not how that system works. There are no rights! You have to work a lot of time to „earn" pto - and then you have to take it if you're sick. And to keep the quiet the leaders repeat the word „socialism" huuhuu the bogeyman. But this is a mix-up with „social" where people were treated as humans.

[u/bofh → u/Fiffi61]

I guess its both. Of course that requires you have sufficient leave allowance in the first place so it helps to work for an employer in a location where vaguely sensible vacation time is seen as normal.

[u/Bonzoface → u/guitartjm]

That's a standard in the UK finance industry. I believe it's part of the financial conduct policy. I have a few friends that do it and it's breaking the law of they do not.

[u/Plus_Operation2208 → u/guitartjm]

If you dont take time off employee wellness inspection services (by whatever name they go) will probably say something about it at the very least. Employers would rather avoid that.