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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/10/disappearing-vacation-days/

This article amuses me.  It states that Americans earn more vacation time now than they did in the past, then points at the rise of PTO vs vacation/sick days as to why there is a reluctance to take longer vacations.

But I'm pretty sure for most employers when they switched to PTO, the sum of your vacation and sick days did not equaly your new PTO total.  They combined them, but shrunk the total!  So technically we don't have less "vacation" but we certainly have seen leave balances degrease over the last 30 years.

Of course, then you have unlimited, or zero balance vacation policies as I like to call them....[/quote]
Where are you reading that combining sick and vacation reduced the total?[/quote]

That was part of my question. Article did NOT state that, but from my experience that was what I've seen.[/quote]

That was not the case for the company that I worked for in the past.  I had 4/1 weeks and that went to 5 pto.

The company I'm with now has it separate and I'm at 4 and 1.  We are allowed to accrue up to twice our annual vacation at any given time so once you hit 8 weeks, you are use or lose.[/quote]

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