Yeah, you’re right on. I think the article can be right sometimes, but at a good company with solid leadership and excellent culture, unlimited PTO is absolutel

Yeah, you’re right on. I think the article can be right sometimes, but at a good company with solid leadership and excellent culture, unlimited PTO is absolutely better than the alternatives. Here’s why I like it: - It’s self-serve, so I don’t need approval from anyone to suddenly take a day off for any reason. - I never have to worry about when to plan trips, as I can work around everyone else’s stringent time off policies. - I can see my friends and family more frequently. - I can take mental health days without feeling like I have to prove something to someone. - You don’t run into weird conversations with your peers about why you were away. It’s normal for people to take PTO. I don’t think there is any pressure from the company for me to take less PTO. In fact, I’ve experienced pressure from my leads to take more PTO. Any company which has informal limits on unlimited afk isn’t doing it right. Maybe their limit is 4 weeks, and they’re strict about whether they approve it. Well, they’re lying about the policy, so you could nearly say it’s not even a proper unlimited-afk policy. In other words, the bad examples of unlimited afk happen when a company doesn’t actually do unlimited afk. They just say they do. So I don’t think that should be treated as a critique of unlimited afk specifically.