alt Hacker NewsTwo things:
1) Unlimited PTO is a scam. Ask anyone who ever got paid out six weeks salary when they changed jobs.
2) “the craft” is doing some heavy lifting here. I happen to enjoy AI-assisted dev, but it is nothing like the work that drew me to the industry.
Otherwise agreed on all counts.
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re-thc • today at 2:59 PM
> Unlimited PTO is a scam
Well, no. It's just the target beneficiary is not you (the employees) but the employer.
Unlimited PTO resolves the employer from paying out PTO when they make you "redundant".
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Unlimited PTO works great for someone like me who regularly takes half day and full day PTO every quarter for various commitments/life stuff. But I’m also a guy and I have no problem asserting myself/spending my benefits. People who are a little less comfortable with that end up just parking on it and would do a lot better if they were given a set number of PTO days. The ambiguity hurts them in the same way not having set raise schedules and discussions hurts them.
Edit: folks, I can assure you I take a lot more than 10 days of PTO. I didn’t even say how many half/full days I take, you’re assuming a lot though I get my language could’ve been more clear there. I probably take between 20-30 days total annually. I am saying that because of unlimited PTO, it is very easy to just grab half days and full days as needed routinely and not worry about my overall count.