Some people don’t like their jobs but they are forced to be in it to make ends meet.
Employees have a limited number of sick days per year and holiday leave is only once in a blue moon.
But Dean Hall, the chief executive of game development firm Rocketwerkz, wants to become the boss of dreams.
When he founded his company in 2015, he would need to attract the best of the best if he wanted to become very successful. So how could he attract the best employees aside from offering high salary?
That’s right – unlimited holidays and sick leave!
Hall explained to Stuff: “You can have 30 people working on $20 million or $30m projects so you’re putting a lot of trust in them already. If you are trusting them with big projects and large amounts of money, why can’t you trust them to manage their time as well? That’s the point we started with.
“You come in on December 23 and there’s someone sitting at their desk and you say why are you here, why aren’t you with your family, and they say they’re saving leave up for the school holidays so they can take kids to Fiji. That’s dumb.
“From our perspective, we just don’t want people worrying up about saving time off. If you want to take a block off and go off to Thailand to find yourself or something, you talk about that with your team.”
The New Zealand-based business now has offices in Dunedin and Auckland.
He continued: “For many it was their first real job and it went one of two ways. For some it worked fine but others needed structure, to be told the hours they needed to be at work.
“It can take one or two years before they start making value for the company and they need to get there by being at work and hearing what’s happening.”
In addition, he gives employees a share of game profits and thinks other companies should also assess how they allocate leave.
Hall added: “I don’t think you can judge someone’s work output by the amount of leave they are taking. Someone who takes a lot of leave could be getting the same amount of work done as someone who’s not.”
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