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

[jducoeur]

1. Varies slightly year-to-year, but about 10 holidays.
2. 15 vacation days.
3. I believe they're tracked, but not very closely: it's mostly a personal-honor thing.
4. More or less arbitrarily, so long as you're around when meetings and such need to happen. I telecommute a modest amount; my co-architect does so a lot, since he has childcare duty in the late afternoon. (The corollary is that there is nearly no such thing as a Snow Day: it's assumed that everyone can telecommute when needed.)
5. Definitely.