Why would the company with millions in revenue be the one paying for one employee’s PTO?
When an employee finds themselves having to take time off work while they don’t have enough PTO to cover it all, they are basically at the mercy of their company. Whatever the higher-ups decide is what will happen, which can make or break an employee’s future with them.
A decent company with empathetic management might offer to help an employee themselves. If a worker has to go on medical leave, the best-case scenario for them would be if their company offers to cover that PTO so that the worker could focus on their health and nothing else.
A less decent company, like most out there, will pull all kinds of stunts to avoid the responsibility of an employee in need. They would do everything to avoid carrying the weight of someone else, even if they value the employee and want them to stick around. That is the kind of company described below.
One of its employees is going to be out for a while for a medical reason, but unfortunately, she doesn’t have enough PTO to cover her leave. Instead of the company covering that time off, HR decided to ask her coworkers to donate some of their own PTO hours to this employee. It’s not a great solution, but not horrible either. Employees can decide whether or not they want to donate, and hopefully enough volunteers will get the job done.
However, this is not where the company’s stunt ended. In order to pressure employees to donate their time off, HR decided to publish a leaderboard with everyone’s names and how much they decided to donate. Those who didn’t offer anything were up there too, names highlighted in red. What a nice gesture, right?
The only question left to ask is: where are the company itself and the lovely HR manager on that leaderboard?
Author: Kayitsi.com
