Does PTO effect utilization or are those hours removed from population?

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@OP - firm holidays do not affect utilization but PTO does.
@mithrandir - yes that's exactly what they are telling you.

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Effects

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Negatively impacts like being on the bench

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That doesn't make any sense. So they are giving us vacations but telling us if we use them it will hurt our performance?

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The way the firm looks at it, your utilization targets include your vacation allowance into the calculation. With respect to firm holidays, that time (as well as "Lost Time") is removed from the denominator. So it doesn't hurt your utilization. But, again, that is already figured into your target by staff level.

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Basically save all your vacation in promo years and use all of it in non-promo years.

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Technically should improve utilization as denominator gets reduced

Firm holidays too?

So worst case, no impact

Your annual target hours include holidays, pto, etc. your target billable plus hours over standard equates to like 48 weeks of 50 hours of work with the other time covered by holidays pto etc. that said if you roll over a years worth of pto then take 3 years worth in a single year you'll be off pace.

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