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[quote=Anonymous]I am your age and similarly skeptical of unlimited PTO. My husband’s office has it and he seems to be cool with it, but it would really stress me out. Basically, since it feels like you need to justify it all the time, it ends up feeling like zero PTO.

I wouldn’t say this as a blanket rule or anything, but since you’re having trouble adjusting, here’s what I would do: Start from what PTO you had before the rule change. Let’s say it was 15 vacation days, 3 personal days, and 6 sick days (that’s what I have now). Unlimited is supposed to be a benefit, right? So add in a few days. I always just thought of personal days as vacation days, so that’s 18. So, give yourself a couple extra, that’s 20. 6 sick days was tight some years, so let’s say 8. Then I’d track my days and take 20 vacation days and up to eight sick days a year.

This works both ways - it would both stop me from using too many days, and encourage me to take more days if I had them because in my head they’d be use it or lose it. And it’s pretty stress free because there is no way that they can reasonably make a case that you’re not working enough if you literally only take 4 extra days than you were.

Just one way to think about it![/quote]

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