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In my experience it has a chilling effect on actual vacation taken. The real driver is not having to pay an employee for earned, unused vacation when they leave

• skookum 9y ago
  > In my experience it has a chilling effect on actual vacation taken. This was exactly my experience in two very different environments with an unlimited vacation policy - one start-up, one large established company. The overwhelming majority of people took less vacation than what is typical at most tech companies and a handful took quite a bit more. The latter handful tended to be strongly correlated with people who were underperformers and the underperforming was, at least from my perspective, not due to less time but more down to a mix of general attitude and motivation. The former majority tended to be worried about perception and/or unsure of what was appropriate and thus tended to take less vacation than they otherwise would have.