alt Hacker News>After five years at Shopify, employees get a paid month off to do whatever the hell they want. I took mine in April 2026.
Bleak.. Only a month after five years.
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RyanOD • today at 4:34 PM
Not bleak for most people. I've never worked anywhere that offers an earned chunk of time off like that (besides standard PTO days).
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MattRix • today at 3:22 PM
Not sure why that’s bleak? It’s on top of the regular vacation days you get every year. I don’t know of any other company (at least not here in Canada!) that would give you an entire paid month off.
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I think it's a month in addition to whatever they already get. So that could be pretty good.
I've been with my employer for 12 years and get a total of 296hrs PTO per year. That's probably abnormal now that I think about it and one of the reasons I've stuck around so long. I don't think I've ever used up all my PTO in a year, usually cash out a week or 2 in December.