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Luke Matthews

Dream boss pays staff £40,000 and offers unlimited holiday leave and sick pay

Imagine a job where you don't have to worry about saving up annual leave for your summer holiday or feel guilty for taking a day off sick.

A company which launched in 2015 came up with the idea to offer its staff unlimited holiday leave and sick pay as way to stand out from it's competitors - and pays the employees an annual salary of £40,000 on average.

Staff are trusted to manage their workload, as well as the amount of time they need to be in the office, and workers simply talk to their team if they want to go off for an extended period of time.

Rocketwerkz, a video game development company, even enforces a rule of employees taking at least four weeks holiday each year to recharge - and sends them home with pay if it doesn't make sense for them to be there.

Dean also caps his own pay and shares profits with staff (Instagram)

Chief executive Dean Hall told Stuff the strategy helped the company attract skilled staff away from big studios and gets the best out of its workers.

You'll have to relocate to New Zealand, which shouldn't be a problem as you'll have all the time in the world to fly home for a visit.

Dean said companies trust 30 people on multi-million pound projects, so why not trust them to manage their time as well?

He explained: "We just don't want people worrying about saving up time to go off.

It would allow you to take more holidays (Instagram)
And spend time hiking instead of being stuck in the office (Instagram)

"What you do is, you talk with your team and if you want to take a block of time off and go off to Thailand to find yourself or something, you talk about that with your team.

He added: "You come in on December 23 and there's someone sitting at their desk and you say why are you here, why aren't you with your family, and they say they're saving leave up for the school holidays so they can take the kids to Fiji. That's dumb."

Dean, who caps his own pay and gives staff a share of game profits, also encourages staff to drive into work when the roads are quiet and head to the gym in work hours when it's less busy.

Rocketwerkz's unlimited leave has to be earned, with the company settling on a three-tier system.

Junior staff on the first tier are contracted to structured hours and holidays, whereas staff on level two are offered unlimited sick leave.

More senior staff on tier three are offered unlimited leave of all forms.

The company believe you can't judge someone's work by the amount of leave they are taking, arguing someone taking a lot of holiday could be getting the same amount of work done as someone who's not.

So where do we apply?

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