If You Have Unlimited Vacation, Will You Take It?

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I recently joined a place that has unlimited vacation and I think there was reticence in the beginning but I got over it.

Most of my work is fairly project based with somewhat decent timelines so it's not so bad to plan time off. Sometimes I can delay until after the project is done. Other times the vacation time is immoveable, I took the time without any distress.

Some people take one big vacation a year. Others do like me and take a day or two here or there with an occasional week off.

I don't understand how vacation can be unlimited when it's paid, almost by definition. If it's unpaid, then that is not a "vacation" but an "leave of absence" or a "sabbatical".

If you disappear for 3 months, but only two weeks of it is paid, it's a two week vacation, and 2.5 month absence, no?

Can you describe what are the actual ground rules behind these "unlimited vacations" at this company you joined?

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