I saw the expression “It is an ultra white company that prohibits working on holidays.” It is restricting the freedom to work on holidays. It’s a company that is taking away the freedom to choose how you work from its employees.
For example, if there is an interesting technical event related to work on a holiday and you want to attend, some companies say, “We will treat it as a holiday work and pay you because it is related to work. It’s hard to say “treat my participation in an event as working on my day off” in a company that has a “no working on holidays” rule. Therefore, employees are under unspoken pressure to take the form of participating in events on their own time off.
relevance - Mandatory regular leave also low discretionary status
- Black or white” is a false dichotomy; in reality, it is a gradation of “freedom in the way you work.
- Forced to work on holidays (very black)
- Forced not to work on weekends
- You may or may not work weekends and weekdays (very white). - Unlimited paid vacation system
- Holiday Messages
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