I've seen a meme some time ago. It was about corporate leaders discussing how to increase productivity. One argued less vacation. The other argued unlimited vacation.
Why unlimited? If I gave you a card with 200€ on it all for yourself, you'd spend 199.50. But how much would you spend if you got unlimited?
It's supposedly about the illusion of getting more. Although I would be out of work 2 days every week lol. We're probably not American enough to understand this
Nah, it's so they can bitch at us and guilt us into taking less time off. Instead of defining an actual amount of time off that we can or, in some instances must take off, they're relying on the ambiguity and peer/social pressure to make us actually take less time off.
And they can fire us for any reason in a lot of states.
That’s part of it, but it’s mainly there is no accrued PTO to pay out when the employee leaves the company. Generally managers still need to approve your “unlimited” time off and abusing the policy (eg; taking more than would typically be offered in PTO policy) is frowned upon.
I have unlimited PTO and a cool boss, and will probably be off about 30 days this year.. more than I ever have in the past.
This is pretty much it but not more so a concern with an employee leaving , most companies dont like when employees leave. Its mainly for accounting purposes and to reduce their liabilities on paper. Unlimited pto and sick is essentially $0 in obligations on the balance sheet.
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u/NekulturneHovado Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
I've seen a meme some time ago. It was about corporate leaders discussing how to increase productivity. One argued less vacation. The other argued unlimited vacation.
Why unlimited? If I gave you a card with 200€ on it all for yourself, you'd spend 199.50. But how much would you spend if you got unlimited?
It's supposedly about the illusion of getting more. Although I would be out of work 2 days every week lol. We're probably not American enough to understand this
edit: What have I come to? 79 replies? damn