If there is a candid performance tracking system in place, I don't think any of our complaints about vacation policy would hold. But a candid performance tracking system is probably at least as difficult to implement as an "unlimited" vacation policy. How do you quantify individual performance? How do you decide what the minimum acceptable performance is? What do you do if one employee has 1.5x the performance of another?
Exactly I couldn't agree more. In a computer sense. Hopefully everyone knows that the lines of code is a bad metric. The number of bugs is a bad metric. Number of new features is a bad metric. Meetings attended another bad metric.
In the world most people in HN lives in. Most metrics are Mediocre at best. There is always a struggle to define quality and quantity of work.
