jim_h

A while back there was a hn submission that featured a cool framework that was supposed to make tutorials or guides easy directly on top of the actual page or something like that. Unfortunately I cannot remember what the product or site was called and Google doesn't help for such generic searches.

Or any other good tutorial/guide builder for a website would be good.

I recently got introduced to the concept of 'unlimited vacation days'. It was a big surprise, but after thinking about it for a while I'm a bit skeptical. I did some research on it and in particular read an NPR article. The articles gives a few examples of people taking a few vacations, but they're relatively normal lengths. Each individual's example were 6 weeks for baby, 1 month vacation, 3 months (after NO vacation for THREE years). The length of the vacations are not extreme or too out of ordinary considering the situations, especially for the new baby and never having taken a vacation for 3 years.

I can see the advantage for someone who currently has 2-3 weeks of vacation to increase to 'unlimited vacation days' and then take 4-5 weeks in a year. However for people who already have an above average number of vacation days (5 weeks or more), it doesn't seem like an advantage to have 'unlimited' vacation days. In a field of people all with 'unlimited' days, it seems like you would be an outlier if you attempted to take more days than the rest.

What are your thoughts or experiences with this concept? Also, how many days have you (or someone you know) actually taken with unlimited vacation days.