My experience with unlimited time off is that it almost always still needs to be approved by your superior so whether it works or not depends on her. This is m

My experience with unlimited time off is that it almost always still needs to be approved by your superior so whether it works or not depends on her. This is means you can have widely varied results. I like your suggestions but they inch closer to just having a set policy on PTO. So my suggestion is just be generous with PTO but have a limit. If you don't have a set limit then people who are intimidated by their superior will always ask for too little PTO. Set the social norm in your company and don't make it so up in the air. Open vacation policies kind of feel like the theory behind offices with cubicals and open office spaces. Open offices and cubicals were originally created to encourage collaboration between employees by tearing down walls between people. Sounds good right! In practice this doesn't work because people are scared of being too loud or of interrupting other employees. I worked in an open office for a while, and it was horrible. It was such a boring place because everyone was trying to be so polite not to make noise for others. I would love to see some numbers on whether open vacation policies encourage or discourage people to take more vacation. It may be positive now, but I have a feeling as it gets implemented by bigger companies it will turn into the cubical of our generation. Office Space 2, The Endless Vacation? You heard it hear first!