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We shouldn’t give them much credit on this. It’s not really an approach it has to do with regulations for large companies. This “hr strategy” is just a friendly way to tell an employee to leave or figure out what to do. I wonder if the genius behind this also came up with the term “unlimited vacation”.

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Well I personally like unlimited vacation policies and it’s been a hit with most teams I’ve worked on. Adding some basic “mandatory” time off usually solves the problem of workers feeling like they shouldn’t take it. It’s really just dependent on office culture.

Vacation is a great thing. Properly setup PTO policies are better. Eventually you reach a point where accrued time ceilings force you to take a vacation. That’s typically too late from a burnout perspective.

IMO unlimited vacation is simply a sugar coated way to not keep track of time off.

Out of curiosity have you kept track of how many days you’ve taken off?

The company keeps track to make sure people take off the minimum amount. After that take off as much as you need. I don’t keep track but I’ve taken off a day every other week for months. Comes down to company culture and how healthy and focused it is.

It also keeps track of the “maximum amount”. Don’t fool yourself :)

Obviously there are reasonable requests and making sure you get your work done, but the last two companies have been my own startups and we have no hard limit.

If you have one where you work then it looks like it's a culture issue, as I've been saying.

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