Paid Time off Benefits
Paid Time Off Benefits is those benefits given by employers to their employees, permitting them to be absent from work and are still paid for all the days that they have taken out of the job. This benefit improves employees’ flexibility to meet their personal needs, such as doctor appointments, family or personal illness, and some voluntary work (Ferri-Reed, 2014). The Paid Time off Benefit policies of our company state that such benefits must be scheduled before the program manager. All necessary efforts are made to give an employee his/her desired time off; however, that time off should not disrupt the company’s normal operations and get approval from the program manager. In a case where there is a conflict arising due to time off benefits, employees who present their requests first are first considered.
- If you were in charge of a business, what paid-time-off benefits would you implement to help retain and attract great employees? Why?
In an attempt to help attract and retain our company’s employees, I would push for the implementation of time off benefits, which would include paid time leave, which are given on an annual basis. The paid time leave in this case would include holidays, vacations, etc. Tracking the time off benefits is neither a big problem to the manager nor the employee; hence there is no need to determine why such benefits are needed.
- What would be the strengths and drawbacks of offering the paid-time-off benefits that you recommend?
One of the very important strengths of the time off benefits is that it gives employees a feeling that they can freely decide without necessarily being supervised (Sonnentag, 2012). Secondly, employees can plan the work coverage since the employee is planned for time off benefit. Paid time off benefit is also disadvantageous because new employees gather their time off slower that the employees who have served for a long time (Sonnentag, 2012). I happened to have experienced this problem in my first year of employment. Secondly, some employees view the time off benefit as just a vacation period but still come to work even though they are still ill, thereby putting other employees’ lives at risk (Ferri-Reed, 2014).
References
Ferri-Reed, J. (2014). Are millennial employees changing how managers manage?. The Journal for Quality and Participation, 37(2), 15. Retrieved from: https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.trident.edu/docview/2193437333?pq-origsite=summon
Sonnentag, S. (2012). Psychological detachment from work during leisure time: The benefits of mentally disengaging from work. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21(2), 114-118.