Imagine being told by your boss that you can take as much holiday you like. What would you do with all that time – would you be off travelling the world rather than going to work?
Whilst this might sound too good to be true, or even a recipe for anarchy, it is exactly what employees at Richard Branson’s Virgin Group Headquarters have been told. In a move that might seem, at first glance, to go against conventional wisdom, Branson’s employees have been told that they can take holidays whenever they like… providing they have got their work done. As Branson puts it in his new blog “It is left to the employee alone to decide if and when he or she feels like taking a few hours a day, a week or a month off” (Branson 2014).
So why would he want to do such a thing? Continue reading
Organizational Behaviour 