Unlimited PTO sounds very good on paper, but on practice it doesn't benefit the workers. With unlimied PTO you are giving up on having certain time off as a right. If you don't use your PTO that you have in your contract, you would get it back as money but now you don't get anything if you didn't use it. It's not clear how much time off is appropriate and not knowing this usually leads to doing less PTO.

Here is a good article: https://www.cbs17.com/news/national-news/is-unlimited-vacation-time-really-unlimited/

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My 2c on unlimited PTO having had that in the past:

It's not really unlimited. The amount of PTO you take is regulated by social pressure. Also i had a family emergency while I had "unlimited" PTO and HR stepped in to limit my PTO time to 2 weeks.

"Unlimited" PTO policies save companies big dollar monies on paying out accrued PTO when an employee leaves. If you dont have a PTO balance, they don't have anything to pay you.

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about that Discretionary Time Off:

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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1613255336223465473.html

I work for a #Nonprofit org with unlimited paid time off. This perk has felt worth the trade off of low pay.

HR says studies found when #UnlimitedPTO policies are implemented people actually take *less* time off. So they set a requirement to take at least 15 days.

I think this is all facinating and am interested to see how it works out in my org.

Since the policy was implemented Oct. 1 I have taken one vacation day. I will start on 8 more days this Monday.
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