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If you're a manager or leader in this sort of environment, I suggest telling your teams something like "I consider 4-6 weeks of PTO to be a healthy amount. You should take somewhere around that. If you need to take more, I'd appreciate it if we talked about that. And if you still feel pressure to take less, let's talk about that too so I can help you feel more comfortable." taking no PTO isn't mentally healthy. I've never felt like we got "more done" over the course of a year because no one took PTO. Eventually it was just burnt out employees grinding through the days. reply One of the reasons that this can be so much of a problem is that a lot of states treat the PTO as essentially a liability to the company. It's something that needs to be paid out to an employee leaving (barring being fired for cause or other situations where it'd be forfeit). I've worked in a number of start-ups or early companies that ran with unlimited pto for this reason alone since it makes the balance sheets e

Ask HN: Is Unlimited PTO a Scam 49 points by donbox on Nov 19, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 94 comments The company I work for has unlimited PTO with no minimum or maximum. I have consistently taken less time off year after year as compared to my previous job where we had fixed vacation days. I guess it probably has more to do with me not feeling psychologically safe in my current organization even though I have been here almost 5 years. At best, the primary reasons companies do unlimited PTO is that it's just not worth it to invest in official rules and some sort of tracking system.…

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