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"Unlimited PTO also discourages using PTO because nobody wants to be seen as the person taking the most vacation"

This fallacy needs to die. When I was at GE everyone in my blast radius took at least 1 month per year. Many took much more than that. There was no stigma.




It's not a fallacy. It's true, and obviously true.

It may not be true everywhere, but every company I've worked in that had "unlimited" PTO had far fewer vacation days taken than companies with a limited allocation of days.


I recall reading that, statistically, you are correct.




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