Economics
Now Your Boss Can Buy Back Your Vacation Days
A startup has a way for workaholic Americans to get something for those days they just can’t take off.
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Many Americans are notoriously bad at taking all of their vacation time. Rob Whalen used to be one of them.
In less than five years working at Cisco Systems Inc., he piled up 240 hours of paid time off. That’s a month and a half Whalen could have used to rest at home or relax on a beach. Instead he chose the office, where there was just too much to do.