Google lets employees donate vacation time to each other -- here's how that started (GOOG, GOOGL)

Glassdoor Although Google has some pretty cushy perks, it's vacation policy is more-or-less standard among big tech companies. First through third-year employees get 15 days off, fourth year employees get 20 days off, and people who've worked there for six years or longer get 25 days.  But there is one side-note to the policy that we haven't heard of anywhere else: Googlers are allowed to donate their vacation time. It all started a few years ago, when one Googler had a parent who had fal...