Another IBM innovation
Instead, for the past few years, employees at all levels have made informal arrangements with their direct supervisors, guided mainly by their ability to get their work done on time. Many people post their vacation plans on electronic calendars that colleagues can view online, and they leave word about how they can be reached in a pinch.
“It’s like when you went to college and you didn’t have high school teachers nagging you anymore,” said Mark L. Hanny, I.B.M.’s vice president of independent software vendor alliances. “Employees like that we put more accountability on them.”
At I.B.M., a Vacation Anytime, or Maybe None - New York Times
2 comments:
Nice try.
No one has time to take vacations at IBM anyway, so it's no wonder they stopped tracking them.
Service people have 90% utilization targets including holidays, training, and whatever else pops into the work week.
It's all IBM smoke and mirrors.
the NYTimes article is so wrong, vacation is tracked to the hour in the lotus notes database application called "Vacation Planner".
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