Working conditions

[dsrtao]

Inspired by a post from cvirtue, let's find out from them that work for others:

How many companywide holidays do you get?
How many vacation days?
Does your company actually (not "officially") count sick days and/or personal days?
Can you telecommute? How much? What enforces that?
Do you work for what you would consider a technology company?

My answers:

1. 10 holidays, all set by the stock market.
   
2. 15 vacation days/year
   
3. No, but people would notice if I didn't do my job.
   
4. Yes, as much as I want to but not all the time; it's an unspoken social contract, plus the fact that our disaster recovery policy states that all employees must be able to telecommute.
   
5. Yes.
   

Comments

[siderea]

I can't actually answer all of this from home! I don't remember! Ask me on a workday. ;)

1) I forget.
2) I forget. All I know is that I've amassed about six weeks off of paid vacation.
3) I dunno. I'm pathologically honest. If I'm home sick (or take time off for a doctor's appt) I log it in the timecard system. Nobody checks up on me. Hell, most people wouldn't notice, since I often work evenings. I was out sick for a week in September and most people didn't know. They thought I was working evenings or out for school.
4) I could, as far as my company and boss go -- I can't for ergonomic reasons! I am hoping to improve my workstation at home so that I could telecommute, but that's a ways off in my future.
5) Sort of. It doesn't consider itself a technology company, but it sure makes a lot of software for something that isn't a technology company.