The company had no clue, the employee kept taking leave for a month pretending to be at work.

Are you also fed up of working a 9 to 5 job and want to leave everything and go on a month long vacation somewhere far away? Like thousands of corporate employees, a person who had this wish took a month’s leave in Italy and also took his full salary. Taking advantage of the confidentiality and other policies of the company, the employee did such a trick that no one even came to know about it and he kept roaming around for the whole month. He kept pretending to work continuously in front of the company and the boss or any other employee did not even notice. Through an article, the person has shared his entire experience with Business Insider.

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Taking advantage of the company policy, the person took a whole month’s holiday abroad in the name of just one week’s paid off. The employee told That the company never suspected that he was not doing enough. Not only this, the company had also appreciated his work many times. Pretending to be working, the person used to respond immediately to the company’s messages and emails and also attended meetings with a fake background. The person admitted that playing video games, doing personal activities and hanging out with friends during work hours is common in the company.

This is how it started

The person who fooled the company and took a month-long holiday abroad told that the company never had much pressure regarding work. The employee told that earlier he used to take paid leave to go to the airport but later he started doing this work without any record. Gradually, the habit of leaving company work and doing something else increased. The result was that the employee vacationed in Italy for the entire month, using only one week of paid leave. The man’s team works for a tech company in San Francisco. This matter has forced companies offering remote working to think about formulating a better work policy to deal with such situations.

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