In the past we’ve offered all employees 11 holidays (starting with New Year’s Day in January and proceeding through Christmas Day the following December). Other companies offer similar holiday schedules.
In addition, we given all employees one floating holiday. As you know , we determined that’s day by a company wide vote. As a result, all employees had the same day off. Now, however, management is considering a new plan that we feel would be better. This new plan involves a floating holiday that each individual employee may decide for herself or himself. We given it considerable thought and decided that such a plan could definitely work. We would allow each employee to chose a day that he or she wants. Of course, we would have to issue certain restrictions. Selections would have to be subject to our staffing needs within individual departments. For example, if everyone wanted the same day, we could not allow everyone to take it in. In that case, we would allow the employee with the most seniority to have the day off.
Before we institute the new plan, though, we wanted to see what employees thought about this. Is it better to continue our current company wide uniform floating holiday? Or should we try an individual floating day? Please let us know what you think as soon as possible?