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by kthejoker2 1250 days ago
What is stopping someone with an unlimited PTO schedule from planning 40 days off a year (setting aside holidays)?

That's just:

* 2 week (10 day) vacation in summer

* 3 week vacation in winter wrapped around Christmas and New Years (so let's say 12 work days off)

* one Friday off a month (12 days)

* slapping on 6 days around holiday weekends, or wrap a couple of long weekends around those Fridays off

40 days out of basically 240 scheduled work days seems reasonable enough.

What I really wish is every 2 or 3 years you earned a 3 month paid sabbatical to go chase your dreams or maybe even do skunkworks or shadow a leader in the org.

1 comments

> What is stopping someone with an unlimited PTO schedule from planning 40 days off a year

I would have a lot of unpaid free time on my hands if I suggested taking that much time off on the "unlimited PTO" scheme.