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My only experience of unlimited PTO was at a startup that was very successful and full of people who worked very long hours and took almost no vacations. If yo

My only experience of unlimited PTO was at a startup that was very successful and full of people who worked very long hours and took almost no vacations. If you took a vacation everyone was very supportive, in the sense that: We are really glad you are doing this, we know how hard it must be for you to take a vacation. In my second year when I let people know that I was going to a second five day vacation (ie two one week vacations in a year) I could see opinions of me drop considerably. I was not a team player. If I ever were to work at a place with unlimited PTO, I would simply ask, what is the average PTO people take in a year. If they can't say, don't believe it. It's just a ploy to not have to account for vacation days or pay vacation days when there is turnover.

borski 5y ago
We enforced a fairly strict “you should really take this minimum amount off per year” while we had our unlimited vacation policy. We never went so far as to punish anyone for not taking it, but we set the minimum expectations upfront, and that seemed to work well.
rjbwork 5y ago
I really like this about my current employer. I take at least 4 weeks off a year in addition to medical/sick leave for things like dr's appointments and just not feeling well. They don't even track it as far as I can tell. Couldn't tell you my exact number I've taken this year or last year, but I take a full week every quarter and my managers have never quibbled about it or anything. I don't think I'd work somewhere that was so nit picky about PTO and looked down on fellow workers for taking it. That way quickly leads to burnout and long term lower productivity.
soared 5y ago
I’ll give you a funny opposing story. I worked at oracle data cloud, a very small section of oracle. We got unlimited pto but the rest of oracle didn’t. They wouldn’t rebuild/change the hr system so we were told to just not put pto in the system and take it as needed. When I left I had taken close to two weeks, but was also paid out more than one paycheck’s worth for my “unused” pto.

borski 5y ago

We enforced a fairly strict “you should really take this minimum amount off per year” while we had our unlimited vacation policy. We never went so far as to punish anyone for not taking it, but we set the minimum expectations upfront, and that seemed to work well.

rjbwork 5y ago

I really like this about my current employer. I take at least 4 weeks off a year in addition to medical/sick leave for things like dr's appointments and just not feeling well. They don't even track it as far as I can tell. Couldn't tell you my exact number I've taken this year or last year, but I take a full week every quarter and my managers have never quibbled about it or anything. I don't think I'd work somewhere that was so nit picky about PTO and looked down on fellow workers for taking it. That way quickly leads to burnout and long term lower productivity.

soared 5y ago

I’ll give you a funny opposing story. I worked at oracle data cloud, a very small section of oracle. We got unlimited pto but the rest of oracle didn’t. They wouldn’t rebuild/change the hr system so we were told to just not put pto in the system and take it as needed. When I left I had taken close to two weeks, but was also paid out more than one paycheck’s worth for my “unused” pto.