2025-01-27
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Here's your money briefing for Monday, January 27th.
I'm Adriana Aspuru for the Wall Street Journal.
As more companies remove the cap on PTO,
employees struggle to balance the perk with the pressure to still be known as a hard worker.
It's largely because they don't want to look like they're slacking off.
When they have a set bank, say three weeks or four weeks, they say, I'm entitled to this.
So I don't feel any guilt about using that time.
But when it's supposedly unlimited, it really just comes down to what you feel comfortable using.
We'll talk with Wall Street Journal on the clock columnist,
Callum Borshers, about the limits of unlimited vacation time after the break.
7% of U.S. employers offer unlimited paid time off, according to Human Resources Trade Group SHRM.
But employees say it's tricky to actually use it.
Wall Street Journal reporter Callum Borshers joins me.
Callum unlimited PTO, it sounds ideal.
What's the problem with it?
Well, the problem is that there are always rules in life, whether they're written or unwritten,
and so when they're not written, that means that they're sort of like this quiet code.