> Fortunately, it's a trend that seems to have had fairly limited pickup It's been the case at the last four places I worked: large corporations who knew thei

> Fortunately, it's a trend that seems to have had fairly limited pickup It's been the case at the last four places I worked: large corporations who knew their H1B workforce wouldn't ask for time off, and startups where I wouldn't get any spare moments to meet with my managers to ask for vacation. (Fwiw, the vacation time at the start ups was perfectly decent, given the situation. I think I took ~3 weeks off each year. At the big company, it was a total fiddle.)