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Um… No. Actually my current employer eliminated vacation time, and it’s just following what the going trend is… The newest vacation “policy” that employers are pushing goes like this.

You no longer can acrue vacation. Instead if you need to take time off, you just ask yourmanager for time off for up to 2 weeks. Longer than 2 weeks blocks need SVP approval. Technically, you have unlimited vacation time as you can request as many vacation blocks as possible, BUT it’s always at the discretion of your manager to grant you the time off, subject to whether your work schedule permits.
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Yeah that sucks and you are probably right about the reason they are doing it. It’s like a stealth pay cut. Time to start taking vacations![/quote]
I agree it sucks. I have a director that would totally be blocking time off requests because he personally never takes vacations.
It would impact the Indian employees a lot… the ones in my office tend to do long trips to India every 2 years, much to the annoyance of management who has to plan for 6 week absences.
It would impact me because I like to take 3 week vacations to help justify the expensive airfare overseas. Plus I’m at the Max of vacation because of long tenure so I’d probably get screwed trying to take it under that system.

In today’s compressed schedules there’s never a good time to take vacation.