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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We'd rather just have a set three weeks or four weeks that we can use.
It really just depends on the company culture, I think, is the bottom line on this.
I've heard from workers who say, you know, I feel like the company just uses this as a way to project a commitment to work-life balance, but really they expect everybody to grind as hard as they ever would.
And then there's also the practical considerations of like, are there certain deadlines that you just have to be present for?
So the notion that my time off is unlimited is really a farce.
Really, there's half of my calendar basically that I can't touch.
They can, but that's an interesting point because for workers, I heard, okay, there's this frustration that my manager really has it to his or her discretion whether to grant me this time off.
And so that's a big caveat on the unlimited thing.
But I also heard from some managers who feel like it can put them in a bind, too, because they don't have a policy to cite if they want to say no.
I spoke with a manager, for example, who said, you know, I had a direct report who wanted to take three weeks off in a row to take a trip to Japan.
That's a long time to be without somebody, at least all in a row, not three weeks spread over the course of a year in one big block.
I couldn't point to a rule and say, well, no, you can't do that.
So I sort of felt like I had to give it the green light.
That's really more of a managerial style or a personality thing, right?
But I think that it's worth noting that sometimes the managers actually feel like they're put in a tricky spot as well.
It's not just the rank and file workers.
Yes.
And some businesses that say they're really committed to the work-life balance have done that.
As opposed to a PTO limit, they've instituted a PTO floor.
I think that's one of the ways that the unlimited PTO can work best.
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