Microsoft is giving US employees unlimited paid time off, ditching 4-week policy

Re:Microsoft is giving US employees unlimited paid time off,... by quantified on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @07:46PM (#34347467)

And they don't need to pay out unused time at end of employment.

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Re:Microsoft is giving US employees unlimited paid time off,... by barbazoo on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @08:18PM (#34347769)

So as long as they take more than 4 weeks on top of the annual 4 weeks a year over their whole employment, they'll end up better off, even if their last day that year was Dec 31.

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Re:Microsoft is giving US employees unlimited paid time off,... by tracker1 on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @11:51PM (#34349362)

When a company I previously worked at went "unlimited vacation" and effectively tossed all accrued vacation time, a coworker started taking literally every Friday off as PTO to make up for the vacation time that was dumped. Having a 4-day 32hr week might be better than vacation in some ways.

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Re:Microsoft is giving US employees unlimited paid time off,... by jxidjhdhdhdhfhf on Sunday January 15, 2023 @11:17AM (#34390477)

And yet, people don't tend to do that because they fear being stack-ranked by their number of days off.

I mean don't get me wrong, if my employer were to go unlimited PTO, I would absolutely use it to the max I could (perhaps take Fridays off in addition to a month long vacation each year), but I'm also sure that I would get fired for it.

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