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[quote=Anonymous]My company allows complete and total work life balance with virtually no limitations. People work from the beach, or the mountains, or even while "psuedo vacationing" at length somewhere else (i.e. people who go see family in Europe for 1 or 2 months at a time), many of us work from home 3, 4 or even 5 days a week. Myself included. I work from my beach house almost every Friday and Monday, and usually only go to the office Tuesday or Wednesday.

Hours are what you want them to be - some people work oddball hours cause that suits them, others work a more standard 9 to 5, several work split schedules - come in at 10am, work till 3pm, go home hang out with the kids, sign back on at 7m, finish up. One guy I know even spent a year working from 5pm to midnight because it suited his schedule better.

We have unlimited sick and a take what you need vacation policy. Nanny not in? No sweat. Kid sick? Stay home. Got drunk last night and feel a little hungover? Sleep in. Want to change office locations? Pick up your stuff and move across the country. Don't ask your boss, don't' even tell your boss if you don't want to. Want to live in NYC and work on a team based on Seattle? Go ahead.

People REALLY struggle with this when they first join... what do you mean I dont have to ask to take a day off? What do you mean I can come in at 10am if it suits my daughter's drop off schedule? What do you mean I can just go shopping or take a 2 hour lunch if I want to? It takes people time to accept that this is really OK....

And its how I run my team as well: I tell them that they will get zero credit for working 80 hours in the office; in fact, doing that usually raises questions about your ability to manage your time in your performance evaluations. As long as the work gets done and the results are there, no one cares. Do good work and I'll make sure you get a big fat bonus, work your ass off and achieve nothing, you'll get nothing. Results is all I care about.

And you know what? People appreciate it a ton. They feel empowered, they feel valued, they feel autonomous. They love that face time, age, and office politics are almost entirely stripped away from performance evaluations. If we have a late night because of some project, no one puts up a stink because everyone knows it just means they'll cut off a few hours early the next day, or whatever extra they put in this week, they'll get back next.

I make about $200K a year now and I figure I could make $250K if i left, but it just doesn't seem worth it. [/quote]

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