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I will probably end up hitting 8 weeks this year. Targeting 7-8 next year.
There's no tracker system, and it's definitely not based on seniority. Managers will check on people throughout the year to poke people to take vacation if we haven't taken any, and make sure we have enough coverage so we don't have entire engineering teams just gone for a month at the same time. Managers (as a soft requirement) encourage people to take a minimum of 5 weeks off a year. Of course, this is also to make sure people aren't abusing this generous policy, but I haven't heard of anyone having their PTO requests rejected, only shifted to avoid too much overlap.
We strive for a very healthy and balanced work culture that encourages good mental, physical, and emotional health. We openly talk about therapy, burnout, depression, mental health days, etc. and we all recognize that people do their best work when our home lives, families, and mental health are taken care of.
I feel like this actually encourages everyone to strive to do their best work more efficiently, because we recognize how privileged it is to have such amazing support and trust from our work and colleagues, and we're not constantly burnt out.
There are still times when we have crunch time, deadlines, all hands on deck, and such, where I feel overworked, but knowing that I can say "hey I worked a few late nights last week to meet this deadline, so I'm going to take a couple days off to recharge" balances things out. I feel very lucky for sure, and I hope more and more companies adopt this kind of balanced and trusting work environment :)
I’ve worked for 3 companies with discretionary PTO and each time it was legit. All cultures were great. I had one manager tell me that he expected for me to take at least 30 days a year.
I average 6-7 weeks. Sometimes more if I travel more in a given year.
I also make sure everyone on my team takes at least a minimum of two weeks back to back every year and really encourage them to take time off. Two weeks is a good way to recharge. Most of my team average around 5-8 weeks a year.
Our only company rules are you can’t take every Friday and/or Monday off to get shorter weeks and needing approval for anything over three weeks at a time. The latter is more for planning purposes (and to make sure no one is trying to take 6 months at once or something).
Would love to know the name of the company that supports taking time off and not guilt people who do it.
Reading this is sad. 28 days a year is the legal minimum in the UK for all full time employees, and sick days are not included in that. Most tech companies give an extra week at least, so 33 days a year, or 6.6 weeks. And most of Europe gets a lot more, like 8-10 weeks is common.
If people have unlimited they should just take as much time as humanly possible.
I actually just counted this week. I've used 23 days and will use more around the holidays.
4 weeks (20 days) total, give or take a couple of days. Our company actually states that 20 days is the reasonable max in spite of listing "unlimited PTO" as a benefit. Not surprising because people will abuse it, and "unlimited" is just a way to give us time without having to list it as a liability on the company's financials. More time is possible, but upper management approval is required (i.e. above the person you report to).
Wow that is super shady and a very blatant way of just shirking having to pay out vacation days if someone quits
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I worked for a startup. The unlimited pto was a pipe dream. Generally only got long weekends and then one full week every other year 😭 I think if you can get coverage, it’s easier, but I was the only one who did my function.
Agreed. I’ve always felt people judging behind my back in any company with unlimited PTO and create an aura that you’re doing something wrong.
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Can I ask what location ? I am based in Germany and I had 37 days of vacation. Which translates to around 7-8 weeks of vacations.
I will have taken 7 weeks this year
I've used 24 days this year. That includes a 2-week vacation in April, several long weekends, probably 5-6 mental health days, and I'm taking another 2 weeks in November.
My old job had a much more restrictive policy, and it's honestly kind of hard to take time off sometimes. I have had folks recommend that I take 6 weeks total throughout a year. I'm getting there!
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What is that 6 weeks number based off of?
Usually about 3 weeks a year.
3-4 weeks, but we also get one Friday a month off, plus the week between Christmas and New Year's.
I used to have this and I took around 6 weeks
About 5 weeks.
Three to four weeks. A lot of my coworkers take almost none, which I think is insane.
In my previous company they had unlimited PTO and it caused uncertainty among employees as it's a global company with people in both US and EMEA. Folks in EMEA usually take 20 - 25 days PTO however in US it's typically less, around 15 days so there was a major discrepancy in the amount of PTO people took. Personally I averaged around 25 - 27 days per year but always felt like I was being cheeky asking for this amount of days. I personally know some folk who averaged out around 10 days too so moving to a company with a set allocation of days (25) was a bit of a relief and I make sure I use all of them every year!
I don't have unlimited PTO, but instead, we have a recommended 35 days off a year. This includes pretty much everything - day off, sick day, vacation, if someone passes away, unfortunately, and so on.
I took 39 days this year, the company average is 21.1 days.
As an international who knows people working in south & north America and Europe - you should take 30 days. - because that is what other countries have to give people BY LAW. Even servants, people that make minimum wage. if a company wants to say on all its materials that its time off policy is "unlimited", 30 days should be a bargain for them. And people in the US - we need to start normalizing that.
at least 30 days * of course.