Lightspeed Commerce is offering its employees unlimited paid leave
“Regardless of the job you do with Lightspeed, you have KPIs, you have OKRs, you have objectives,” said chief executive Jean-Paul Chauvet. “So as long as you deliver on what you’re doing, I don’t care how much time off you take.”
Hardline managers might raise their eyebrows at Lightspeed’s people-centred approach. But Elena Antonacopoulou, a professor of organizational behaviour and strategy at the Ivey Business School in London, Ont., said we shouldn’t be surprised by such an approach. Instead, we should celebrate it. Unlimited paid time off indicates that Lightspeed trusts its employees, and wants to liberate staff to “enjoy themselves to enjoy their time as they so choose,” Antonacopoulou said.Article content
“If you want people to want to come back — and we don’t want to force anyone to come back — you need to make it exceptional,” he said.Advertisement 5“I worked in Stockholm 12 years ago,” Chauvet said. A Swedish office is more “homey,” he added. “Everything is centred around the kitchen. It’s almost like a flat.”
Antonacopoulou said the most important thing is not whether employees choose to work in person or online, but that they have the choice. Prior to the pandemic, many employees had no choice but to work from the office, and during the pandemic, they had no choice but to work at home, subjected to control and surveillance techniques that eroded trust.Article content
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