[amorphous]

I recently took a new role and talked to a couple of companies that offered "unlimited holidays".

After talking to them I came to the conclusion this is something that looks nice on paper but is actually doing you a disfavour. Because if you take up on the offer and take substantially more holidays then the rest of the team you'll look bad. And if you take fewer holidays you are losing your rights.

In my opinion, if a company wants to be generous, offer generous fixed holidays so I can take them without feeling guilty.

(Funnily enough, those companies were always against remote work. For me that is contradictory, you don't want me to work from home but be off instead?)