They didn’t ask me, but I’ve been saying this for a long time — give me more vacation!

Another new study, by Sibson Consulting, reports that it wouldn’t take much to lure many employees from their current jobs. Surprisingly, given the stock markets’ recent gyrations, fully half of the people Sibson polled would take a new job for just $1,000 worth of equity, even if the stock a new employer gave them couldn’t be sold for three years. Just as popular: extra vacation days. “Employees would rather have more time off than an equivalent amount of compensation,” according to Sibson. “Half of American employees would quit to take a new job offering ten more days of vacation time, and 75% would leave if offered 15 more days of vacation.”

Seen here.

Myself, I’m more of an afternoon person, so when I saw this on my way home from the store, I pulled the car over and got out!

Go see some wonderful photos of an area near here, taken by one of my Apple co-workers.

Thanks David for getting up so early to hunt for the day!

LaVonne reminded me that I’d not reported in on Maya Angelou’s talk. It was great! I’ve heard her so often on the radio and TV and she was even more inspiring in person. She has great delivery – beautiful sounding voice whether singing, reciting poetry or just telling tales.

I enjoyed the concepts that she presented — that we all impact the lives of others intentionally or unintentionally. We may never know what effect we have.

The other take home message was that we should never denigrate our own worth or the value of our lives, if only because the lives of others have already “paid our way.” So our ancestors and others in society, however unknown to us have made it possible for us to be here today, living our lives in the world that we live in.

I enjoyed the fact that although she wove together mainly these two concepts, the talk was wide ranging and wonderfully illustrated.

Two thumbs up.

“Collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom, but sharing data is the first step toward community.”

IBM gets it. Large (8MB) file version, but viewable (since the links on the IBM page seem to have major issues)…. here)