'unlimited' PTO should only ever be offered with a required minimum number of days. If that means my boss has to say "Go home for the last 2/3 weeks of December

'unlimited' PTO should only ever be offered with a required minimum number of days. If that means my boss has to say "Go home for the last 2/3 weeks of December, you can't work any more this year", that's fine. Personally, I'm in a position where I'm perfectly happy with my current company's offer: I get a relatively small (2 weeks) amount of non-sicktime PTO, but I'm more or less free to take as much unpaid time as I want. Which in a field as well-paying as software development, is absolutely fine with me. Even better would be a formal pool of UPTO, which doesn't need any negotiation at all, but luckily my boss is accommodating.