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Thank you for taking the time to comment on your experience at WGI. All comments are welcome and we%E2%80%99re hopeful that the responses are useful as well. In regards to PLA, you are correct in that WGI does not offer sick time; however, we amended our %E2%80%9Cvacation%E2%80%9D policy to include sick days. Over a decade ago, in response to feedback from our associates and trends within many professions, WGI collapsed sick time and vacation time into a single Personal Leave Allowance (PLA) policy. This PLA policy allows more flexibility and provides the ability for time away from the office without having to differentiate between being sick and being on vacation. When the PLA policy was put in place, WGI added the %E2%80%9Csick%E2%80%9D days to the %E2%80%9Cvacation%E2%80%9D days and arrived at the total number of PLA days. So we do indeed have %E2%80%9Csick%E2%80%9D days, it%E2%80%99s just that we don%E2%80%99t ask whether you%E2%80%99re out sick or away on vacation. How the total PLA days are used, is up to each associate. They could all be used for sick time, or they could all be used for vacation time. Further, up to 80 hours of used PLA time can be carried into the next fiscal year. This flexibility actually allows each of us more %E2%80%9Csick%E2%80%9D or %E2%80%9Cvacation%E2%80%9D days each year depending on personal needs, or to preserve the hours for future use.

Thank you! Your kind comments reinforce that WGI’s initiatives are appropriately aligned with those of our associates. That is essential for our mutual success. Our doors and minds are always open to constructive suggestions, so please let us know when we can do better.