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Vacations: Norwegian-style. Wish You Were Here!
by Sandy BurudMy Norwegian relatives just came for a visit on their first trip to “America”, for the first 3 of their 6 weeks of vacation they get per year (!). Well, you only get 5 weeks if you’re under 60, but in Norway, they figure older workers could use an extra week. And, oh, by the way, Norwegians also typically get a little extra pay during vacations – 11% of what they’ve earned in pay and overtime during non-vacation months. I asked my 60-something cousins, Leif and Signe, and their daughter Tone and her family the rest of the story, so I could answer the inevitable questions about Scandinavia. Okay, so you have all this vacation time, don’t you pay a price for it? What measure shall we look at? |
First Enlightenment
by Sandy Burud“First enlightenment, then the laundry” …Zen master I love ideas. They feed me. I start each day perched in front of an open window, pausing to connect and reading from a book or two. It orders my day and over time, my life. In the 30 years (holy cow) I've been working and considering how I want to experience my life, I've been changed by the thoughts and words of all kinds of people -- from poets to economists, who write about everything from the logic of sharing a chocolate cake to the wisdom in cleaning out your closets. In case you're curious, if one person cuts the chocolate cake in two and the other gets to choose first which part to take, a natural fairness results – the portions magically become equal. It's actually an economic theory, but I remember it as the ‘chocolate cake' theory – that ‘aligning interest' of two parties is possible. Think we could apply that idea to CEO pay and employee compensation? |
