6 ways to ensure employees take vacation this summer
Published June 3, 2014 8:55 AM
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Updated June 3, 2014 11:08 AM
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1. Let Gandhi be your guide.
Like Gandhi inspires, be the change you want to see. Set a good example and take all of your own vacation.
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[Images: Shutterstock]
2. Reward with vacation days.
Offer additional vacation days as a reward for outstanding performance, innovation and solutions to challenges.
3. Make it mandatory.
If feasible, stipulate that all employees must take their allotted vacation every year.
4. Use it or lose it.
If youre uncomfortable with mandatory policies or its not feasible for your workplace, use-it-or-lose-it is another approach. Or, eliminate or limit the ability for employees to cash out vacation days.
5. Make the business case.
Make the business case for adoption a more liberal vacation policy. Its no coincidence that most of the companies on Fortunes 100 Best Companies to Work for list not only have generous perks, but also post impressive business results, says Magosky.
6. Offer voluntary benefits.
Purchasing Powers new vacation benefit enables employers to offer vacation options (excluding airfare) such as hotels, cruises, destination packages and all-inclusive resorts as a payroll-deducted voluntary benefit. Its another $1,000 or $2,000 purchase for people that they could normally not afford, says Elizabeth Halkos, chief revenue officer, with Purchasing Power. For employers, theres a tangible return on investment in terms of productivity, increased morale and wellness when people actually take time off.
