In the bad case, your PTO rarely gets approved, and you never accumulate any to be paid out. Peer pressure is used to convince people to not take time off.
In the good case, leaders lead by example by taking time off frequently, and encouraging their reports to do the same. PTO is approved more often than not. If people start "abusing" the privilege, they get spoken to personally, instead of the whole team/company being punished by changing the policy.
I've worked at a place with unlimited PTO, and it was the latter case, and it was great. I never had to budget my time - I never had to worry that spending an extra day at the beach during the summer meant that I would have one less day to spend with my family in another state during the holidays. The time I took off seemed much more worthwhile than being paid out for 3 accrued days or whatever.
Yup, and my place of employment is also the latter. Leadership takes time off all the time. Heck my direct boss who is senior engineering director just took 2 weeks off for vacation, which overlapped with a major release launch, he didn't care, his vacation personal time meant more.
Our VP of Engineering takes off quite a bit too. They all encourage us to and also encourage us to take mental health days too. Mental health is a big concern in my company and they do not take kindly to people not taking care of themselves... It sounds bad to read that way but "do not take kindly" in a good way.
Also we're a heavily remote first and ROWE company, that could also make a huge difference.
In the bad case, your PTO rarely gets approved, and you never accumulate any to be paid out. Peer pressure is used to convince people to not take time off.
In the good case, leaders lead by example by taking time off frequently, and encouraging their reports to do the same. PTO is approved more often than not. If people start "abusing" the privilege, they get spoken to personally, instead of the whole team/company being punished by changing the policy.
I've worked at a place with unlimited PTO, and it was the latter case, and it was great. I never had to budget my time - I never had to worry that spending an extra day at the beach during the summer meant that I would have one less day to spend with my family in another state during the holidays. The time I took off seemed much more worthwhile than being paid out for 3 accrued days or whatever.
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