My company was acquired, so now salaried folks get unlimited PTO while hourly workers (which includes our sales group) get 4 weeks of "sick time" (no notice, use for anything) and 2 weeks vacation (2 weeks notice). But why the weird "sick time" vs "vacation" rules just for hourly? I'm so confused by it. Why not give everyone unlimited PTO?

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From what I’ve heard of unlimited PTO it does make more sense for a manager role, which is mainly the salaried where I’m at. I’d be ecstatic to have 6 weeks of time to use. That would be more than I’d take if all of the sudden given unlimited PTO. Be too nervous to use too much.

The idea that you can’t take 2 weeks of vacation without giving extra notice, while your salaried counterparts can take a random week off next month with no problem, just sounds like burnout waiting to happen. It feels like our time matters less.

That seems like a very weird structure. And the idea of sick time being used anytime for whatever is quite strange and seems primed to be taken advantage of. Sometimes I wonder how they choose these kinds of benefits and the rationale behind them.

Wow! That’s a lot of sick time. I have never been offered more than like five days max of sick time. If we ran out and we got sick, we had to use our PTO time. I mean it’s a weird set up. I get that. but it’s still generous sick time. That’s more time than we get maternity leave here.

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