| I don't think "It's a scam" - just every implementation of it I've seen. Similar to 'self-guided learning' - Sure it's nice being able to get cash to pay for any online course I like, but it doesn't give me the "week in a room just focussing on a topic" that a more formal course would provide. It's the time given, not the course provided that was more valuable. It can work though if initiatives are related, ranked clearly and measured.
(Hypothetically) A company might provide bonuses to management for the profitability of projects. Simultaneously, it might wish to discourage weekend working - people quit and quality suffers.
With those two goals disconnected, you can guess what happens. If you link them - say internally bill for hours worked and double for weekends, rather just time-elapsed, then suddenly weekend work mainly vanishes - and projects are better resourced at the outset. To loop back to the "Wellness" you could implement it with commitment to resources, metrics, stated goals and I think it would work fine. Why are we promoting wellness? How are we going to measure it? What resources are you providing I didn't already have? etc. |