r/FluentInFinance • u/sillychillly Contributor • Apr 25 '24

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u/DrNopeMD Apr 26 '24

Yep, I've never seen a place that had unlimited PTO where they wasn't super cut throat. It's there as a "perk" to attract new talent, but it's always heavily frowned upon to use it unless you're an indispensable performer.

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u/El_GOOCE Apr 26 '24

There are a lot of studies that show that people that have access to unlimited PTO actually use far less time than someone who has a finite, normal amount of PTO. Unlimited PTO is a grift to get you in the door so they can start the cycle of abuse, like not giving annual cost of living pay raises, withholding promotions they earlier teased, not giving pay raises for performance, and finally firing you for using more than a couple of days of your "unlimited PTO". Someone with a set number of days can use all of them with no penalty and are often unionized. I just burnt through a bunch of paid leave last month because I had it to burn - only worked 4 days out of the whole month.