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What Jim (Wright) Gaveth, Jim (Kim) Should Take Away
Today marks the start of Dartmouth’s New Year’s Break, an extra week of paid holiday on top of the College’s already generous vacation policy.
Subj: Message for Dartmouth Club Presidents
From Suzanne W. Young –
Sent: 11/20/2009
Dear Club Presidents,
…Holiday Break: Several years ago, President Wright instituted a policy of closing the College between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day in order to allow employees to enjoy the holidays with families and friends. President Jim Yong Kim has embraced the idea for this year and consequently the College will be closed from December 24 - January 1, opening again for business as usual on Monday, Jan. 4. Only essential services personnel will be working during this time period. As you makes plans for club mailings or announcements, please keep these dates in mind and plan ahead. The earlier you can get a request to us, the better during December.
Thank you for all that you do for Dartmouth and have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Sincerely,
Sue
__________________________________________
Suzanne Wiley Young ‘77 P’10
Senior Associate Director, Regional Affairs
How kind of Jim Wright to have given everyone an extra week of vacation between Xmas and New Year’s. I hope that people haven’t gotten too used to this extra vacation, because it is a perfect candidate to be part of the College’s restructuring.
As I suggested in a recent post about Dartmouth’s extravagant employee vacation policy, the Christmas week period should be a time of mandatory vacations for all but essential employees. These four or five days should come out of the employees’ over-generous vacation allowance (22+ days for most people, plus eight holidays, plus the current break), rather than be an expensive addition to it.
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