互相關愛 谷歌允許員工互相捐贈休假時間

Although Google has some pretty cushy perks, it's vacation policy is more-or-less standard among big tech companies.

儘管谷歌公司有許多非常誘人的福利，不過它的休假政策纔多多少少稱得上是大科技公司的標杆。

First through third-year employees get 15 days off, fourth year employees get 20 days off, and people who've worked there for six years or longer get 25 days.

根據規定，工作三年的員工每年可以獲得15天的帶薪休假；工作四年的員工可以獲得20天的帶薪休假；工作六年或更長時間的員工可以獲得25天的休假。

But there is one side-note to the policy that we haven't heard of anywhere else: Googlers are allowed to donate their vacation time.

但是，谷歌的休假政策有一個獨到之處，那就是：允許員工相互捐贈休假時間。

It all started a few years ago, when one Googler had a parent who had fallen sick. That employee took time off to return home to care for their relative, but matters hadn't improved by the time their allotted chunk of paid vacation had run out. They either had to take an unpaid leave, or stop caring for that ill family member.

這種做法開始於幾年前，當時有一名谷歌員工的家人臥病在牀。該員工於是請假回家照顧家人，但是在他的假期快結束的時候，他家人的病情仍然沒有好轉。這名員工當時面臨兩種選擇：要麼繼續選擇不帶薪的休假，要麼停止照顧生病的家人。

But one of their teammates, who knew about the tough situation, made a proposition. They wanted to let that other Googler have a few of their vacation days. So began Google's vacation donation system.

不過，該員工的同事們瞭解到這種困境，於是向公司提出了建議。他們想從自己的假期中挪出幾天給這名員工。就這樣，谷歌的休假捐贈制度形成了。

Laszlo Bock, Google's head of HR, told this story on stage at the company's third Take Your Parents to Work Day, a celebration hosted at its Mountain View campus where parents flew in from all over the country and the world to attend speeches by execs, go to employee-led classes and demos, and explore the Googleplex.

在谷歌于山景城的園區舉行的第三屆“帶父母來上班”活動中，該公司的人力資源主管拉茲洛·博克講述了谷歌員工捐贈休假的故事。很多員工的父母從全美國乃至全世界各地飛過來，參加了谷歌高管們舉辦的講座，走進了谷歌員工開設的課堂和演示活動，並參觀了谷歌的園區。

"So, after that, we created a policy where, if there's another Googler in need, you can actually take your vacation and give it to them," Bock said to a crowded ampitheatre filled with thousands of parents. "What's cool about that is it came not from people in the operations department, but from one of your families saying 'This is important.' And so we built it into the system, so that everyone can benefit from that idea, not just one person."

“所以，從那以後，我們就制定了一個政策：如果員工有需要，你就可以從你的帶薪休假中抽出幾天，捐給他們。”博克在階梯教室裏對着數千名員工父母說，“這項政策最酷的地方是：這不是業務部門的要求，而是你們家人由衷的心聲，'休假陪伴家人很重要'。因此，我們將這項政策納入到了我們的企業制度中，讓每個人都能夠從中受益，而不單單是某一個人。”

One of Google's management mantras is to create an environment where smart, creative employees are free to push company-wide changes, and this anecdote shows how that idea can actually play out.

谷歌的管理理念之一就是創造自由輕鬆的環境，讓聰明而富有創意的員工們自由地在全公司範圍內推行變革。上面這則小事表明，在谷歌，員工們好的想法確實能夠得到實現。