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Bold flat vector explainer · 54 seconds · English
Rest Is Part of the Job
A 54-second internal HR explainer in bold flat vector for The Good Corp, a made-up company: how to book time off in the right order, from a request in GoodTime to approval, and only then the flights.
- The brief
- “Booking time off at The Good Corp, step by step”
- Style
- Bold flat vector
- Length and frame
- 54 seconds · 16:9
- Made for
- Team training
How it was made.
The Good Corp is a made-up company, set up as a brand kit with its colours, logo and a time-off tool called GoodTime. The brief added the policy in eight short rules and asked the director to use only those.
The director opened on the mistake everyone makes, booking flights before the request is approved, then walked through the right order and ended on “Rest is part of the job.” It cost about $7 of model spend to make.
Every film on explain.film is made the same way: one sentence in, a storyboard you approve, then the director paints, voices, scores and animates it, and a critic model grades the cut before you see it.
Transcript
- The one time-off mistake everyone makes? Booking flights before your request is approved.
- So here's the right order. You get twenty-five paid days off a year.
- Open GoodTime, pick your dates, add a short note, press Request.
- Three days or more in a row? Ask at least two weeks ahead.
- Your manager approves within two working days. GoodTime pings you. Now book the flights.
- Before you go: check the team calendar, set your out-of-office, and hand over open work to a named buddy.
- Up to five unused days carry over. Use them by March thirty-first.
- Woke up sick? No booking needed. Just tell your manager that morning.
- Rest is part of the job.
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