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Boss pays workers $7,500 to take a vacation
Posted by Mary Ann Milbourn on 07/13/2012 at 3:58 PM

Bart Lorang is calling it a Paid, Paid Vacation and he’s giving his workers at FullContact $7,500 each to take it. The only requirement: they must completely unplug from work.

Lorang, co-founder of the Denver-based company that helps people manage their contacts, said on his blog that the idea had been “gnawing at” him for a couple of years.

“It’s super important for people to disconnect,” Lorang wrote. “It’s so important at FullContact that we will actively incentivize this behavior.”

So at the company’s all-hands meeting he announced his plan to give each of them $7,500.

But the money comes with three conditions:

  1. You have to go on vacation, or you don’t get the money.
  2. You must disconnect.
  3. You can’t work while on vacation.

And, by the way, Lorang cleverly noted in his blog, FullContact is hiring. Employees get 15 days of vacation a year plus federal holidays.

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