Workers Denied Vacation for YK2 Bug
y2ktoday.com
ASSOCIATED PRESS
-- Merrill Lynch, with 64,000 employees worldwide, has asked managers
and other key personnel not to take time off from Dec. 1 through Feb. 15, 2000.
-- The DuPage County Sheriff's office, just west of Chicago, has blocked off all of November, December and January for its 530 employees, ranging from deputies to secretaries.
-- More than half the 200-plus chief information officers and technology executives polled by CIO magazine earlier this year said they would ban vacations for information technology staffers in the week around New Year's.
-- The Federal Reserve, anticipating a surging demand for cash toward year's end, plans to stockpile an extra $200 billion, one-third more than normal, and the Fed branch in Cleveland is asking its 1,200 employees to be available from Dec. 27 to Jan. 10, 2000.
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