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- a day of work on which an employee is not required to be at work but is paid by the employer. The number of days...
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- Prepare For A Vacation, Then Take It!
- Everyone needs a vacation, even small-business owners and solo entrepreneurs. Don't think you can't take one, just because you run a small company or a home-based business, and don't feel you can't extricate yourself from it. You can - and should - take time off if you want to stay...
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- 5 Tips For Getting Your E-Mail On Vacation
- If you're going on vacation, you're probably looking forward to getting away from the phone. But e-mail is less intrusive, and many of us would like to bring it with us. Accessing e-mail from anywhere has become easier over the years. Nowadays, it's not much more difficult than downloading it...
- White papers
- Vacation Policy
- The purpose of the Vacation policy is to clearly define who accrues vacation time, when vacations can be taken, how vacation time/pay is calculated with regard to layoffs/resignations, military leave, death, discharge, resignation, and holidays.
- Tools & templates 2007-11-16
- Need to Cancel a Vacation for Work? No Problem
- It's becoming increasingly difficult to justify taking time to yourself (despite abundant research on the benefits of work/life balance, which should release us from feeling the need to find justification). Research shows that 19 percent of workers have cancelled a vacation for work at least once -- and vacation insurers are counting on this. ...
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- Our Democratic Right to Vacation
- Although you need to consider the source of budget-travel guru Arthur Frommer's blog post, boldly titled An increase in the amount of vacation time is unfinished business of our democracy," he does raise some interesting arguments from a quality-of-life perspective. But what about the business perspective? The...
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- Video: The Impact of Vacation
- How much vacation time do most professionals take? Do longer vacations improve or hurt productivity? In this BNET video, we get a variety of answers about the benefits of vacation. Where does your philosophy fit in? Length: 00:01:53 by BNET staff
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- How to Go on Vacation
- When was the last time you took a vacation? A real vacation? Two polls released this month show that Americans not only have trouble getting away from work, but they also have trouble staying away. A recent Yahoo HotJobs poll found that 45 percent of respondents didn't use all of...
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Is Taking a Vacation Good for the Economy?
- In a Sidewalk Stories feature, BNET surveys managers and employees about whether they believe taking a vacation is a help or hindrance to the overall health of the economy.
- Videos 2006-01-01
- 2008 Vacation Request Calendar
- This is a template for 2008 vacation request calendar.
- Tools & templates 2002-10-31
- Management Pushes Employees To Unplug
- A small but growing number of U.S. businesses are starting to craft tactics that offer overwhelmed, overworked, and over connected employees more control over their multitude of time-consuming tasks. Approaches range from organized brainstorming sessions, such as a weekly "Thinking Day" at a Southwest Airlines unit, to tough restrictions on...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Vacation, American Style
- Close the eyes and picture that person is relaxing on a soft, sandy beach with the eyes closed sun warming their face, cool drink by the side. Person is ready to drift off into a lazy sleep…as the cell phone, PDA, and e-mail service erupts in a cacophony of chimes,...
- White papers 2002-06-12
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- Ten Popular Vacation Home Features
- When tourists come knocking at the door of a person's vacation rental, what will they expect the person to offer? Many answers are available in "Top 10 Vacation Home Features Travelers' Seek" offered by TripHomes.com, a vacation home rentals website. Still more insight is available from vacation home market experts...
- White papers 2006-04-05
- Vacation Policy - Sample
- Vacation pay is one of the most heavily litigated wage and hour issues. In general, it is considered to be an "Accrued" benefit unless your company specifies otherwise. This means an employee is entitled to a proportionate share of his or her vacation pay for every day he or she...
- Tools & templates 2000-12-12
- Vacation Home Rental-by-Owner Tips
- Renting a vacation home without the help of a property management company could save a person as much as half the rental income. A self-taught Atlanta, GA vacation property owner who runs a growing vacation property rental business on the Florida panhandle, says property managers in her area charge from...
- White papers 2004-07-27
- Profitable Vacation Home Rentals
- Rents on vacation homes typically are cheap enough to be more attractive to travelers than traditional travel accommodations, but high enough to bring in more than enough cash to pay the mortgage and upkeep costs. Because vacation home rents for travelers are higher than long-term rents paid by conventional tenants,...
- White papers 2004-07-23
- Vacation Properties Come With Extra Expenses
- There's nothing like a short jaunt to the beach (or mountains) to release stress, get one's first seasonal sunburn and start thinking about buying a piece of vacation rental property. Vacation properties can be a great way to buy a house now for the future (retirement or actual vacationing) at...
- White papers 2006-04-14
- 'Hidden Gems' in Mountain, Coastal Vacation Home Towns
- Whether one is buying a vacation home for fun or profit, knowing where to buy is key. If one chooses to use it primarily as an investment property, he may want it near a popular travel destination. If the person needs a playhouse during his down times, he may want...
- White papers 2004-07-28
- Developing Vacation and Sick Leave Policies
- The article says that Human Resource Department should work on developing vacation and sick leave Policies. When developing sick leave and vacation policies for your company, there are some things you must do, because you're required to by law, and some things you should do, because they'll help you retain...
- White papers 1999-01-02
- Why are You Working Today?
- Answer: Because you're smarter than the silly folk who take today off. Back when I worked in cubicle-land, I never could understand why people took vacation days the week between Christmas and New Years. I realize that they're trying to use the two holidays to...
- Blog posts 2007-12-26
- Understanding the Vacation Paradox
- Parkinson's Law states that your workload will expand to whatever time you allocate for its completion. Thus, when you're willing to work late or to check on work stuff from your PDA at home, you're usually not really getting more done; instead, you're just being more wasteful with your time. That's...
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
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