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This is a tough one because the utilization metric is designed around commercial projects which typically bills 45 hours per week. When you cannot bill more than 40 hours max, it means taking anymore than a few days of PTO will cause you not to reach utilization. One thing I suggest is speaking with your project leadership to see if the offering leaders have approved a lower utilization since no one on the project can bill more than 40 hours. They want you to take PTO so the answer is not to take no days off. My project summits something at year end stating 40 hours per week is the max so 90% utilization is everyone’s unofficial goal instead of 93%. On top of that, if you perform well, and your utilization is slightly below target (ie 88% or 89%), it won’t hurt you. I never missed a promotion for only missing utilization by a few points. Emphasis on perform well. Lastly, I recommend to anyone new on my team to take advantage of any OT opportunities that come your way throughout the year. Most projects have a busy time or random testing that needs to get done. If you volunteer to do a few extra hours whenever the opportunity arises, you won’t have as hard a time reaching utilization AND using all your PTO. Good luck!
D1 is completely correct. Just want to emphasize that at year end, one of the utilization impacts your coach is specifically asked to report is capped project hours (I.e. your project, which only allows you to work 40 hours per week). I’ve had many coachees miss utilization by small margins here and there, as long as I documented the legitimate reasons they all still did very well at year end.