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My employer has an unlimited PTO policy- you simply make the arrangements with your manager, which are almost always approved as long as your on-call/customer-f
by dharmab 6y ago
My employer has an unlimited PTO policy- you simply make the arrangements with your manager, which are almost always approved as long as your on-call/customer-facing shifts are covered.
We most often use this policy to take a few hours off during a day when needed to take care of errands. It's nice to be able to schedule around doctor's offices, bank and school hours.
My sister worked a 9/9s schedule at a previous job (9 hour shifts with every other Friday off) and also found it very useful.
- throwaway0a5e 6y ago9/9 is common in defense and everyone either likes it or isn't complaining about it. In my experience most white collar businesses do a "wink and nod" sort of arrangement for the sorts of things where you need to be in late or out early so that you don't burn sick time on them. IMO the real benefit of PTO is that you can do things like take the mondays/fridays surrounding holiday weekends off without worrying about whether or not you will have the requisite hours to take a week of vacation in summer and around the holidays.
- dharmab 6y agoOh, we also have a _mandatory_ week off in summer and winter. (Those that need to keep the lights on take a different week off.)