Those with unlimited PTO policies, how many days do you take off per year? Recently switched jobs and trying to plan vacation time for New Years and early spring and have no clue what’s considered acceptable.

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I generally take around 20 days off a year, but see some colleagues do closer to 25 and some closer to 15. I would ask around and observe what people do around the holidays as this can be good insight to the general culture around time off.

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4-5 weeks. I’d ask your manager what the expectation is.

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None, I literally take zero vacation. This year I tried to take a week and it got canceled by one of the hurricanes. Even if I could take time, I’d probably end up attending scheduled meetings and answering critical emails, just in the morning and evening. The bigger problem is that, having side clients, I don’t get “vacation” and they want discounts on recurring flat fees if I’m not available for a period. It’s hell. My wife takes off random weeks to just hang out at home or goes on vacation with her family.

I do get odd days off or can disappear for a day or maybe 1.5, but that is getting harder and harder to do and is totally unpredictable. Any time I do get is traveling to medical appointments or doing things around the house.

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So long as you get your work done and everyone isn’t out at the same time, no one cares. Avoid extended trips around popular times like Xmas/NYE. Better to take longer trips on your anniversary. Also good to turn a 3 day weekend into a 4 day. Also take 3 day weekends.

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Gotcha!

~3-4 weeks is my norm.

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I don’t really count them but I’d say around 20. How many you feel comfortable taking is all dependent on your company and when you’re busiest. I never take time off at the end of the month or quarter bc that’s when we’re busiest. I always check email on my phone even when on pto just to make sure there’s nothing urgent. But I also have no hesitation is requesting 10 days to take an extended vacation with my family. As long as work is getting done, and you’re not putting others in a bad position, no one cares how many days you take off

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~20 days. People in my dept seem to take a lot of long weekends, but only 1-2 longer trips per year.

Ugh. I hate this policy. We got bought by another company and they changed our normal vacation policy to this. I would currently have 5 weeks under the old policy. I had four when the new policy came in. I average 3-5 weeks. Normally I’ve tried to always take 4 to match the old norm. Of course I then work on vacation and on company holidays. On vacation today for Wednesday before Thanksgiving and have been working at the airport, took a call on the plane before takeoff and will work on the plane. What’s annoying is that as a manager I’m told to let a new employee take as much time as a 30 year employee. Of course the real goal is for no one to take much time off.

There’s nothing better than making a PTO request when you have use or lose hours. It’s right up there with taking PTO for wedding/honeymoon. I don’t think I ever saw one declined if they were the first to request those dates

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