It seems like people mostly use their PTO but hardly ever take other days off. I don't mind losing 2 weeks worth of salary in a year if it means I get to spend 2 extra weeks with family. In addition to the monetary loss, does a company look down upon this even in I inform them well in advance? (In addition to voting please post your thoughts if any) EDIT: From the 60-odd votes till now, over 40% of you have never even tried or considered taking time off after PTO!! For those of you 40% who want to take time off, but are not doing so because you're too lazy or afraid to ask - go on that holiday or spend time with your loved ones! From the list of top 10 things people regret in their old age, they wish they: (9) Hadn't worked so hard (7) Had taken better care of their body (3) Had given back more to charity (2) Had pursued their dreams and aspirations and not what others expected of them And (1) Had spent more time with people they care about (According to some YouTube video)
Get Unlimited PTO and chill
No. I did this before. Just knock it out!
I'm much more concerned about people in my group not taking enough time away. If someone only had 3 weeks left and wanted to take six weeks we'd figure it out.
You get in this deficit stage. You end up owing time. Until you pay for it, it’s a negative balance on the books. So eventually you’ll cover it.
I've done 5 weeks pto all in one go before. Traveled for vacation to a couple countries. My co-worker did 7 weeks vacation using pto. My other co-worker took pause of work to travel the world for an entire year. My company couldn't care less about productivity
They didn't care about your holidays as long as you were productive or they just didn't care about productivity?
We’ve got unlimited PTO so it’s never come up
Nice
At Amazon I get the feeling they’d only let you take unpaid leave to deal with a personal emergency or such.
So you feel they'd possibly deny your vacation request? Damn
In my team people can take vacation days whenever they want. We're pretty good on deadlines so senior leadership is pretty cool with things.