"Outdated PTO management can lead to confusion, biased decisions, inaccuracies and employee frustration," McGowen says. "With ...

In many companies that have a unified PTO policy, employees don't separately accumulate sick days, vacation days and other types of sick leave, as they work at the company. Instead, over time they ...

“For example, I may spend 10 days visiting family adjacent to a federal holiday to get two weekends out of the trip ,but work two of those days, which can mean using just three days of PTO.

PTO doesn’t mean “paid time off,” workers say, it means “prepare the others.” “We feel like our right to have a life outside of work is being violated and that’s super triggering for ...

Manager discretion: Time off is often still subject to approval, meaning that even though PTO is "unlimited," people may not always feel free to take it when they want or for as long as they want.

Workload and performance should be effectively managed. This might mean caps on unlimited PTO during certain times of year, or that advance approval is necessary. The policy must be fair ...

Winston-Salem city council members are meeting Monday night to vote on their budget. It includes a proposed plan to cut sick time and vacation benefits for firefighters. Winston-Salem firefighters ...

Although both PTO accrued and PTO banked are components of an employer leave policy, accrued time and banked time differ slightly in definition. A PTO bank awards employees a cumulative number of ...

1 Over half (52%) of employees report working while on PTO Just because workers take PTO doesn’t mean they sit back, relax and completely forget about their jobs. In fact, more than half of them ...

PTO Request: Friday, Dec. 26 Consecutive Days Off: 5 days (Dec. 25–28) If you also have Dec. 24 off, you'll enjoy a 5-day weekend. For an extended break, request Dec. 22–24 and Dec. 26 ...