Wtf?
Never once in my eleven years at Microsoft was I involved with a team that flew it’s entire team to some distant resort to do absolutely nothing1.
What happened to Shrimps and Weenies?
What about the folks that couldn’t organize multi-overnight babysitters? How was their morale?
What about the other teams in the organization that don’t lay on that kind of extravagance? How was their morale?
Craziness.
1 Btw, I’m not railing on Kim here, just the event he attended ;-)
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Yikes! Well, I guess some such comments were expected. Might help if I add a few points:
1. Spouses AND kids were welcome. We just chose to have a couple days away from ours. (2 year old twins - can you blame us?!)
2. Employees had to pay for spouses and kids, and most of their meals and entertainment. MS paid for air and 1/2 of hotel room (i.e. room paid for if you shared with a co-worker).
In other words, my 'free' weekend wasn't all that cheap :-)
That being said, I was a bit shocked too when I first learned of it. However, it's worth noting that the group is run very much as a P&L and this is something they chose to budget for. At the same time, this group is much tighter with it's budget than many others I've seen with things like debatably-unnecesary equipment purchases and eyebrow-raising expense account dinners and the like.
At the end of the day, it's something the PUM feels is a good idea for team-building purposes. His responsibility is running a money-making business, so he's got to make the call on whether it's a good way in which to do so.