Yep, companies give “unlimited PTO” because it’s a way to actually reduce the amount of PTO employees take.
Give them 20 days PTO/year? They’ll take around 20 a year.
Give them unlimited PTO? They need to justify every bit of PTO, so probably only get to take 4 or 5 for important days.
Upside: not fired.
Downside: have to do work.
Upside: make money
Downside: not enough money
Xcom: 99% chance to hit
Also Xcom: miss.
Surprised they didn’t lean into it. “Just lost your job? More time to play games!”
“DICKS OUT FOR HARAMBE!”
Grandchild: “there goes his Alzheimer’s again”
I hope other governments, small and large, start doing this.
At least two.