This works out fine till you get that one employee who screws it up for everyone else. It really works when you have people who love working a lot, and those who don't have other "distractions" (marriage, kids etc,). A company should definitely have a vacation policy, if it doesn't it is doing injustice to employees who work hard.
Let's say Omar is a hard working guy doesn't take a lot of vacation, and Jack is a guy who loves taking vacations ( and sometimes takes too many vacations ), If both these guys are equally capable and have the same efficiency, Omar is the guy who contributes more to the company. Without a clear guideline from the hand book, Omar doesn't know how much time he can spend on vacations and so does Jack, but they both assume that whatever they are doing is right, and whatever the other guy is doing is going overboard. Giving a little thought to the vacation policy can help you a lot in these areas, Once you do have a vacation policy there is no misunderstanding everyone knows what they are doing.
The "vacation policy" ultimately gets changed when people take undue advantage of it, or people get fired for taking too many vacations, but not transparently. The management will say, oh, your results are below average, blah blah blah....
This works out fine till you get that one employee who screws it up for everyone else. It really works when you have people who love working a lot, and those who don't have other "distractions" (marriage, kids etc,). A company should definitely have a vacation policy, if it doesn't it is doing injustice to employees who work hard.
Let's say Omar is a hard working guy doesn't take a lot of vacation, and Jack is a guy who loves taking vacations ( and sometimes takes too many vacations ), If both these guys are equally capable and have the same efficiency, Omar is the guy who contributes more to the company. Without a clear guideline from the hand book, Omar doesn't know how much time he can spend on vacations and so does Jack, but they both assume that whatever they are doing is right, and whatever the other guy is doing is going overboard. Giving a little thought to the vacation policy can help you a lot in these areas, Once you do have a vacation policy there is no misunderstanding everyone knows what they are doing.
The "vacation policy" ultimately gets changed when people take undue advantage of it, or people get fired for taking too many vacations, but not transparently. The management will say, oh, your results are below average, blah blah blah....