Callum Borchers
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1,301 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2022
last heard Jan 2025
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And that's not necessarily the point of it.
You're supposed to use it and take the vacation time.
But some people, especially if they're really ambitious, hardworking people, they like being able to bank that time, especially if it rolls over from year to year.
So, you know, okay, if I leave this company, I've got five weeks saved up and they have to pay me for that used time.
If there's no bank that you have to draw down, there's also no bank to cash out on your exit.
Yeah, that's a big part of it.
And it also is sort of a calculation of like, how ambitious am I within my career or at least within this company?
One person I spoke with who says, look, I take five or six weeks off every year.
That's probably more than most people expect.
can take.
And she said, I'm a recovering workaholic is the way she described herself.
In the past, she never would have taken more than three weeks off, but she said, I've got some new priorities, including caring for an aging parent in that case.
And so she accepted there's a trade-off there though, right?
So she says, I don't feel guilt tripped by coworkers when I take my five or six weeks, but I also understand working less might mean I'm not up for that next promotion.
Some of them do.
And in fact, I spoke with one HR consultant who actually advised a client to go back to limited PTO.
Paid time off based on an employee survey, which was interesting.
So you think the freedom to set your own vacation limits would feel like really liberating.
But in that case, the workers say, no, it doesn't feel freeing at all.
We feel this like guilt whenever we take time off.
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