[borski]

It’s not “still just a way” to keep it off the books - that’s just a convenient side effect for the company. The overall effect was that more people took more vacation at our company, which was overall a good thing.

[pnutjam]

If that were the case you should give people a generous amount of leave and make it expire if unused, 30 days on the first of the year?

[borski]

And what if someone needs a 31st day?

That’s the challenge this aims to solve. There’s nothing wrong with either approach, and “shaming people into not taking vacation” works either way.

[pnutjam]

Give them the 31st, but you need to set a floor and commit budget.