Microsoft employees are getting unlimited time off

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/11/23550470/microsoft-employees-unlimited-time-off-2023

by tuan • 4 years ago

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deadmutex2• 4 years ago

To someone not in tech, unlimited PTO sounds like "Wow, that's great, I can take 7 weeks off of work without consequences every year if I felt like it".

In reality: You're judged by what you produce. So, if you take off those 3-4 extra weeks that you might've not otherwise done... you're theoretically 3-4 weeks behind someone else who did not. Then if throw stack ranking into the mix [officially, or via some forced rating distribution], you may be trading for a lower rating for extra vacation.

PM_me_your_math• 4 years ago

If you don't produce, you're simply going to get fired.

deadmutex2• 4 years ago

I think the fear is that employees will think:

If you don't produce [more than the other guy that is taking less vacation], you're simply going to get fired.

Things are pretty relative in the corpo world. I think a lot of companies try to be fair, but that is very difficult to achieve.

Microsoft employees are getting unlimited time off

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