Pursuits
The Whole Foods Co-CEO Has Saved Up 338 Days of Vacation Time
- U.S. executives are racking up time off, shunning the beach
- `You've got to make sure you get your batteries recharged'
Whole Foods' All Work, No Play CEO With 338 Vacation Days
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If Walter Robb went on vacation today, he wouldn’t have to be back at work as co-chief executive officer of Whole Foods Market Inc. until about March -- of 2017.
Robb has accumulated 2,703 benefit hours -- better known as paid time off -- since he joined the grocery-store chain in 1991. Chopped into 8-hour shifts, they add up to 338 days, which he can take in time or cash. While Whole Foods is the rare U.S. company that lets employees roll all their vacation over year after year, Robb’s not unusual in his aversion to actually using it.