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In Chicago, PTO is accrued at a minimum rate of 1 hour of PTO per 40 hours worked regardless of employment type or status. You guys should get with the times in

In Chicago, PTO is accrued at a minimum rate of 1 hour of PTO per 40 hours worked regardless of employment type or status. You guys should get with the times in the rest of the nation.

throwntoday 5y ago
Is this post satirical? You can't seriously be holding Chicago up as an example of anything worth copying.
slg 5y ago
Pretty depressing that you have been conditioned to think 6.5 days of PTO a year is "with the times". That is abysmal compared to our peer nations.
- hardolaf 5y ago
  It's better than the rest of the nation...
brokenmachine 5y ago
Lol, that's not the flex you seem to think it is.
- jirf_dev 5y ago
  thinking it’s a flex is missing the interesting point. Which I believe would be that PTO should be progressive and be accrued by hours worked. There shouldn’t be a requirement to be a “full time” employee before PTO is accrued because businesses can easily have people work slightly less than 40hrs/week with minimal loss to operational efficiency. If PTO accrued over hours worked regardless of full time status, businesses would have much less incentive to circumvent the system. Let’s say we have a system where 40 hours worked = 1 day PTO: - the business may choose to split the 40 hours among 4 employees working 10 hours each. - however, needing to hire more employees to cover the same 40 hours (which one person alone could have handled in the legacy system) increases training and recruiting costs 4x (worst case hopefully) for each role. - instead of circumventing the PTO “cost” altogether, the businesses would be forced to budget for it no matter how creative they get with staffing. - budget-wise, the increased cost of PTO would effectively also be increasing the hourly wage. Further forcing businesses to scrutinize the roles they offer and question if it is really necessary to have a human being perform that function.

In Chicago, PTO is accrued at a minimum rate of 1 hour of PTO per 40 hours worked regardless of employment type or status. You guys should get with the times in the rest of the nation.

throwntoday 5y ago

Is this post satirical? You can't seriously be holding Chicago up as an example of anything worth copying.

slg 5y ago

Pretty depressing that you have been conditioned to think 6.5 days of PTO a year is "with the times". That is abysmal compared to our peer nations.

hardolaf 5y ago
It's better than the rest of the nation...

brokenmachine 5y ago

Lol, that's not the flex you seem to think it is.

jirf_dev 5y ago
thinking it’s a flex is missing the interesting point. Which I believe would be that PTO should be progressive and be accrued by hours worked. There shouldn’t be a requirement to be a “full time” employee before PTO is accrued because businesses can easily have people work slightly less than 40hrs/week with minimal loss to operational efficiency. If PTO accrued over hours worked regardless of full time status, businesses would have much less incentive to circumvent the system. Let’s say we have a system where 40 hours worked = 1 day PTO: - the business may choose to split the 40 hours among 4 employees working 10 hours each. - however, needing to hire more employees to cover the same 40 hours (which one person alone could have handled in the legacy system) increases training and recruiting costs 4x (worst case hopefully) for each role. - instead of circumventing the PTO “cost” altogether, the businesses would be forced to budget for it no matter how creative they get with staffing. - budget-wise, the increased cost of PTO would effectively also be increasing the hourly wage. Further forcing businesses to scrutinize the roles they offer and question if it is really necessary to have a human being perform that function.