Those with unlimited PTO - how much do you take? (1 Viewer)

[Poke_4_Life]

Some companies have addressed the liablity by only allowing employees to carry over a certain amount of hours into the new calendar year.  About a decade ago my company switched to a policy of only allowing folks to carry over 40 hours of PTO into the new year.  They frame it as "you need time away from work to recharge" but I assume they're addressing the issue you laid out.

A few states, like CA, have laws that disallow use it or lose it policies so employees can accrue as much PTO as possible and get a huge payout similar to Judge which our company has to follow.

My company does this.  I believe I also have to use at least the carryover before mid-year.  I get about 6 weeks now, but evidently they don't want me leaving with 7 weeks in the bank at the end of a year.  It's whatever, I'm not leaving so I don't care.  

 

[snogger]

Some companies have addressed the liablity by only allowing employees to carry over a certain amount of hours into the new calendar year.  About a decade ago my company switched to a policy of only allowing folks to carry over 40 hours of PTO into the new year.  They frame it as "you need time away from work to recharge" but I assume they're addressing the issue you laid out.

A few states, like CA, have laws that disallow use it or lose it policies so employees can accrue as much PTO as possible and get a huge payout similar to Judge which our company has to follow.

The use it or lose it policy sucked during Covid 2020. Got to late October and succumbed to the fact there was going to be no lifting on travel restrictions, so had to plan out 4 weeks of vacation in the last 9 weeks of the year.. While also juggling around my counterpart needing to use up 4..

Just sucked doing the "staycation" for 4 weeks out of 9

 

[Instinctive]

I don't truly have unlimited, but it feels that way since they don't really track it. Over the past 3 years I've taken ~25 days paid and 40 days unpaid time off each year. I can more easily do that the way my job is, taking weeks at a time between engagements, and mostly taking off Thanksgiving through new year's. 

 

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I probably take 3-4 weeks formally "OFF"

Working remotely It's less of a concern... I also probably take 5-6 weeks worth informally "working from somewhere not my desk, and basically just checking my phone periodically to keep #### moving"

So I guess 9 or 10 weeks-ish?