One of the things i like about working at the big 4 is the pto. Plus the 1 week long holiday shut downs during christmas and 4th of july. For those that switched to private from public, how hard is it to take time off? I like to travel so typically request time off of 2-3 weeks each time. And the week long shut downs are amazing.. i dont wanna lose this but im sick of working in PA.

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Friend has been complaining that they have 20 days but the issue is how much can be taken at once -- officially doesn’t seem to be mentioned but in practice 1 week or less goes without much comment, 2 weeks gets a raised eyebrow but seems ok, anything more than 2 weeks is grumbled about, especially by senior management/those who only take 1 week pto at a time

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From my experience, this is because there’s generally less capacity to move work around between team members in industry and anything that threatens a month/quarter end can cause problems.

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I feel like it’s usually easier to take time off but you usually get less. This will vary a lot from company to company though. I worked in industry before PA. It was always easy to get PTO approved, but we only got two weeks the first year and three weeks in years 3-5.

Most people aren’t taking 3 consecutive weeks off in the vast majority of roles. I didn’t even see that in big 4 unless it was combined with the shutdown.

It’s pretty easy to take time off for me. Also we shutdown during December for a week as well. So it’s not that unusual of a perk. I also get unlimited pto in which I used about 3.5 weeks so far this year

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