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

[cellio]

7 fixed holidays, 5 floating. (Informal policy: you can float all 12 if it's ok with your boss and coworkers.)

20 days/year because of a grandfather clause; new employees get 15 until they've been there for 15 years (yes, you read that right).

Sick time is tracked in the timesheet but there's no quota. If you're out for more than some number of consecutive days (3? I forget as it hasn't happened to me yet), you need a doctor's note.

Telecommuting is weird. We have a few employees (people with two-body problems who we wanted to keep) who work remotely in other cities. You can, in principle, work from home if it's really necessary (sick kid or the like). In practice, there are both technological and interpersonal barriers that make this hard, and if you're local you can't do it routinely.

Yes.