"Nearly a quarter of American workers didn't take any of their vacation days this year. That's according to a report published in October from FlexJobs based on a survey of over 3,000 U.S. workers. Despite workers being more burnt out and disengaged than ever, many refuse to take time off. Could unlimited PTO be to blame? It's been well-documented that unlimited PTO may not be the generous gift workers are led to believe."
""If I gave you my debit card and told you you could spend up to $20, I'd bet my life savings you'd spend $19.50 without hesitation," Capozzi explains. "But if I were to tell you in that same scenario you had no limit. How much would you spend?" The answer is probably less. "If we give them 25 days a year, they'll take 25 because it's theirs."
Nearly a quarter of American workers did not take any vacation days this year, based on a survey of over 3,000 U.S. workers. Unlimited paid time off has become a popular benefit over the past decade, but the lack of a set allotment can suppress time-off usage. A comedic portrayal shows an executive proposing unlimited PTO to make employees hesitate to take leave, work harder, and burn out faster. The portrayal includes a debit-card analogy: people spend near a defined limit but behave more frugally when given an unbounded allowance. Employers also avoid paying out unused days under unlimited PTO.
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