Don't you just love it when real life turns conventional wisdom upside down?

Take this growing trend of unlimited vacation policies at companies like IBM and Netflix. While on its face, it might sound logistically challenging at best and downright chaotic at worst, the policies actually not only appear to be improving productivity, but easing employee stress, as well.

In practice, it appears to level off the traditional seasonal and end-of-year jumps in vacation days, making life easier for human resource managers as well as the employees.

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