How Unlimited Vacation Time Killed the Vacation

If you’re in a job where you can technically work from anywhere, is it really necessary to take a week off from work? Employees are entitled to their time off, which the implementation of an unlimited vacation policy is in no way a negation of. That much everyone can agree on. So from an employee vantage point, the issue with having unlimited vacation time becomes more about how much time they are genuinely entitled to, in addition to how much of that time will be actually taken “off.”

According to a handful of HR Executives and company heads, there’s an ambiguity behind having an unlimited vacation policy that’s primarily by design. Unlimited vacation time sounds like an amazing job perk when you first hear it, but in most cases, it’s a marketing ruse, they say.

“People think unlimited PTO is something that should be desired. In reality, people who have an opportunity to take as many vacations as they can will end up taking fewer days off than those with a limited amount of days off in a year. In a nutshell, the unlimited PTO policy is a marketing trick that is supposed to lure people into applying for the job,” Branka Vuleta, founder of LegalJobs.io, says.

Read more about the implementation of unlimited vacation policies in the office — and how it actually may be keeping you from taking that vacation.

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