Tag: time off

Taking Time Off When Running a Small Business | AllBusiness.com

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After a long, gray, chilly Southern California spring, the official start of summer has finally passed and I, for one, can’t wait to start enjoying the sunshine, hot days, and my cool backyard pool. As the song goes, “Summertime and the living is easy”—but for small business owners, it’s not always easy to take time off from your business in summer. Business doesn’t always slow down when the temperatures rise, and you may feel torn between having summer fun and keeping your customers happy.

How can you take time off this summer? Try these tips.

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LinkedIn switching to ‘discretionary’ vacation policy | Cnn Money

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LinkedIn is the latest company to offer an open-ended time off policy to its employees.

The networking site is implementing a “discretionary time off,” or DTO policy, for its U.S.-based employees, LinkedIn (LNKD, Tech30) vice president Pat Wadors said in a blog post.

Starting November 1, the company will no longer offer a set number of days off each year. Instead, managers will work with employees to plan vacation time.

Under the new policy, LinkedIn employees will face “no set minimum or maximum amount of vacation time,” Wadors wrote.

“We are not alone in making this shift to DTO. It’s part of a growing movement to place more focus on results and empowerment, not hours worked,” Wadors wrote. “And it’s an important step to help employees recharge and keep engaged.”

The unlimited vacation model got its start at small tech firms, and a couple of major employers including Virgin (VA) and General Electric (GE) have adopted it over the past year.

The shift has caused bumps in some workplaces.

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10 Tips for Taking a Break Before the New Year|allbusiness.com

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Want to take time off from your business but worried that it might be more stressful than relaxing? The truth is, the holiday season can be a great time for taking a break and sneaking in some much-needed R&R before another busy year begins.

In order to get some solid advice about how to let go, we asked a panel of 10 entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the following question:

Q. What’s one tip you’d give a fellow business owner who wants to take some real time off before the new year?

Their best answers are below
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