Contact management firm, FullContact will begin to pay its employees $7,500 to take advantage of their paid vacation time.
"The past few years I've had this totally insane idea that just wouldn't go away. It kept gnawing at me," co-founder Bart Lorang wrote on the company's blog.
The company will not only encourage people to go on vacation, but will pay for the vacation itself. With the program, FullContact is taking into account employees' hesitation to go on vacation and their fear of using so much money to do so.
Lorang decided that the $7,500 pay would be enough to take an average sized American family of four on a vacation.
Other companies are taking on this same action. Online television company Netflix has adopted a "freedom and responsibility culture" package for its employees. The package gives employees unlimited vacation time, so that their level of productivity increases and is measured by the amount of work they get done instead of the amount of time they are seen in the office.
The new system hopes to put an end to old traditions in the work environment. Its plans are to create a space where the amount of time employees work is not as important as whether employees successfully complete the tasks they are being paid to complete.
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