When you went to determine how many days off (hopefully paid) you award one-year or longer-term employees, did you consult any benchmarking sources to point you in the right direction?
If not, or if you'd like a good new source to turn to for this employee engagement activity, I give you the following data points as averaged across our nearly 500 applicant organizations for the 2010 Top Small Company Workplace award:
In a paid time off (PTO) Plan:
- Days: 15.7
- Plus holidays: 8.7
- Total days: 24.4
Not in a package:
- Vacation days: 10.7
- Sick days: 5.1
- Holidays: 8.5
- Other* days: 3.3
- Total days: 27.6
*Other includes:
- Personal
- Bereavement
- Birthday
- Floating holiday
- Flex
- Jury duty
- Service/volunteer
- 1/2 or 1 day before the weekend
- Tenure-based vacation
- "Shut down week" between Christmas & New Years
- Family leave
Related: Switching gears, check out our Ask An Expert column that shows how employees can make the case for time off to management (hint: it leads to a more productive workplace).
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