Take as much as vacation as you want
March 26, 2007 by John in Consumer, Entertainment
My patronage of (and love for) Netflix is just that much more validated, beyond the fact that they continue to spank Blockbuster.
Employees at the online movie retailer often leave for three, four, even five weeks at a time and never clock in or out. Vacation limits and face-time requirements, says Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings, are “a relic of the industrial age.”
Netflix’s time off rules - or lack thereof - are part of a broad culture of employee autonomy instilled in the company when Hastings founded it a decade ago. The executives trust staffers to make their own decisions on everything - from whether to bring their dog to the office to how much of their salary they want in cash and how much in stock options. Workers are treated, as Chief Talent Officer Patty McCord likes to say, as adults.
So Netflix is one of those employers, like Google, Pixar, et al. Companies of this breed are nigh mythological.