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 The American giant decided to implement a more permissive approach to its more than 30,000 employees
 

A | EFE .- The US industrial group General Electric began offering their employees this year unlimited vacation time , as do other large companies around the world, such as audiovisual content provider Netflix and the British multinational Virgin.

According to a report from CNN Money of today echoed by various means, the US giant General Electric decided to launch a “more permissive approach” on vacation than 30,000 employees, 43 % of the workforce of the company.

The idea of ​​unlimited holiday has been promoted by several emerging companies to attract young and creative employees, but in a while large companies have decided to join and allow their employees to take the days of vacation, sick or personal issues they wish without prior authorization of their heads.

The move is part of a larger change on the work culture of General Electric, whose management believes that the company can achieve better results if you trust in employees and are trained properly , he told CNN Face Hume, leader of human resources in the section of Energy and Water Company.

With this change, the workers will not have to notify the direction of making free days , although some of them should notify when to go missing the rest of the team of employees to organize work.

Other companies with fewer employees, like Netflix and Virgin they had already adopted this policy of unlimited vacation.

“It is a system that can take a vacation whenever you want, as many as you want and we will not keep track. If you want to be away for a birthday, a wedding or a special reason just do it . It consists of treat people as individuals, give them flexibility “explained months ago in an interview with CNN, the owner of Virgin, Richard Branson.

“If you work eight or nine hours is no longer a schedule that applies, then why maintain strict policies (holiday) per year?” He added.

In line with this change in corporate culture, the media group Tribune Publishing, owner of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, tried to take a similar approach to their workers , but he had to reverse its decision a week and a day after announcing it.

According to a statement issued then, the media group decided to reverse after receiving “valuable input from employees” on the decision to allow unlimited vacation, he had “created confusion and concern Inside the company “.

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