Testing the Limits of Unlimited PTO
Dec. 13th, 2024 12:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerThis year I've been pushing the limits of unlimited PTO (paid time off) at my job. ...No, I don't mean been lounging in a hammock for 2 months instead of working. Sorry if the userpic here and my opening sentence painted that picture. 😅 It's that relative to my moderate norms of taking time off I've taken a lot off this year.
Since my company switched to an unlimited PTO policy several years ago I've continued my taking time off at about the pace I had for several years beforehand under traditional accrued PTO policies, 3-4 weeks a year. This year, though, I've really taken advantage of the plan.
Today I checked my records for the year and noticed that, including time off planned in the next few weeks, I'll have used 28 days of PTO in 2024. That's over 5 weeks! And that doesn't include a few freebie days my company is giving to all employees around Christmas or the freebie days I got for the President's Club trip back in May. If I count those in I'm at close to seven weeks for the year!
So far I've haven't gotten any pushback about the amount of time off I'm taking. That's good because that's the supposed point of unlimited time-off. As long as I'm getting my share of the work done it shouldn't matter whether I take off 3 weeks, or 4, or 5... or more.
Since my company switched to an unlimited PTO policy several years ago I've continued my taking time off at about the pace I had for several years beforehand under traditional accrued PTO policies, 3-4 weeks a year. This year, though, I've really taken advantage of the plan.
Today I checked my records for the year and noticed that, including time off planned in the next few weeks, I'll have used 28 days of PTO in 2024. That's over 5 weeks! And that doesn't include a few freebie days my company is giving to all employees around Christmas or the freebie days I got for the President's Club trip back in May. If I count those in I'm at close to seven weeks for the year!
So far I've haven't gotten any pushback about the amount of time off I'm taking. That's good because that's the supposed point of unlimited time-off. As long as I'm getting my share of the work done it shouldn't matter whether I take off 3 weeks, or 4, or 5... or more.
