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With everyone saying unlimited PTO is a joke, my experience is the opposite. I used to work at Improbable [0], which had (and still has) an unlimited holiday po
by ggambetta 5y ago
With everyone saying unlimited PTO is a joke, my experience is the opposite. I used to work at Improbable [0], which had (and still has) an unlimited holiday policy. I regularly took 5 or 6 weeks off per year, never had a single problem with that. Managers would actually encourage people to take time off if they weren't taking enough. Now at Google we have a very generous PTO policy, but I do miss not having to do time off arithmetic to see if I can spend one more week back home for Christmas.
[0] http://improbable.io http://improbable.io
- strangeattractr 5y agoI work in financial services we have set time off and managers are punished in their performance reviews when employees don't take their time off because it accrues as a liability and means that salary costs are 1/13th higher than they should be due to the liability. I think that a mandated minimum PTO allowance + discretionary 'unlimited' PTO would be better at a large organisation. Eventually a company grows to such a size that the influx of assholes is inevitable, mandating the minimum and accruing the expense aligns incentives better in my opinion.