Assuming you have the PTO you need, does your job limit the amount of PTO you can take at once? Could you take 3-4 weeks off if you chose to? ETA-not medical related
Post by lightbulbsun on Jan 22, 2021 11:55:18 GMT -5
My company doesn't have a policy, however it's up to managers to approve or deny PTO, and there are some at my company who would probably not approve that (luckily not mine!).
We don't have a limit but we to use common sense. Like if our project requires us to be staffed for a client need they really don't want us to be take off for a month. It may mean we need to be rolled off from that project. But we do often see people take PTO for a month at a time with no issues.
I don't think we have an official policy against this, but I also kind of doubt it would be approved unless it was for a good reason. If I just wanted to go on vacation for 3-4 weeks, it would be too disruptive to the work that needs to be done for my supervisor to ok it. I am sure there are some non-medical circumstances that would be considered a "good reason" but they would probably be exceptions rather than a common occurrence.
Post by yourmother on Jan 22, 2021 12:02:11 GMT -5
For my company, I'm pretty sure anything after two consecutive weeks needs to be handled a certain way. I only know this because I incorporated PTO into my maternity leave.
I get about 6 weeks PTO and there’s no way I could use it consecutively. There’s no officially policy, but it would never be approved. 1 week is the norm. 2 weeks is rare.
No formal restrictions here. I could do it, but I'd need to do some serious planning to arrange for coverage. But I also have a really small team, so if I were to take off 3 consecutive weeks I'm (a) saddling my coworker with extra work and (b) creating a massive pile of work for my return, since about 70% of what I do, no one else can do.
I take two consecutive weeks once a year and then sprinkle in a week or a few days here and there during slow periods.
Post by sofamonkey on Jan 22, 2021 12:27:16 GMT -5
I don’t have the PTO yet, but for the staffers that do, it’s been no issue. My boss was just gone almost a month. Several other staffers will take a long vacation too. There’s never an ideal time, but we all pitch in (all departments as needed too) so people can take the break they’ve earned.
For me personally, when I do accrue that much, my family won’t be able to join me the whole time if I did that. I’ll miss them terribly. 😂😘
Assuming you have the PTO you need, does your job limit the amount of PTO you can take at once? Could you take 3-4 weeks off if you chose to? ETA-not medical related
I'll answer for dh since I'm currently SAH. Yes, but they need to put in for their PTO/vacation days when they make the schedule, which is twice a year. So right now, his schedule is set through June, and in April they will create the schedule for June-Dec. He will need to take so much PTO during that period, but when they make the schedule they also need to make sure that there are enough people to cover service. So he could request 3-4 weeks off at a time but it would need to be approved based on availability of coverage. There are times of the year that would be easier to find a 3-4 week stretch than others.
Post by Patsy Baloney on Jan 22, 2021 12:48:02 GMT -5
We have a lot of international employees where I work, so I think it's not uncommon for people to take 3-4 weeks off at a time, especially if you're going to visit family.
I don't think my boss would have an issue with me taking 3 weeks off? She would probably ask that I try to make it at a non-peak time, but even then, there's nothing that I do that is emergent, barring deadlines that happen during times I wouldn't want to vacation anyway. If it can't wait for 3 weeks, it probably doesn't go through my office.
Our PTO needs to be approved by our supervisor, but how much you use is generally not an issue. However, sometimes you are asked to remain on call while on vacation, but in my Supervisors 13 years he's only had to call someone on vacation 1 time. Most people in my company don't have enough vacation time to take off an entire month, but it is pretty common for people to take 2 weeks at a time, especially around holidays.
Ours is up to mgrs to determine if they can permit the time to be taken as requested. There isn't a set limit of how much of your PTO you can use at once, but in my team most people only take about 2 weeks at a time to try to be considerate of others sharing the work while they're out. I'm sure there are cases of mgrs permitting more time for specific circumstances though. We also have a kind of sabbatical leave so if someone really needs more time they can plan ahead to use that.
Post by wesleycrusher on Jan 22, 2021 12:56:12 GMT -5
No, there are 2 of us in the same role and we cover for each other. Our manager is fine with us taking time off as long as we've coordinated. We usually give the manager a heads up the week before we go if it is a week or longer.
We used to have a requirement of exec approval if you want to take more than a month off. I think that get removed when they changed the max amount of accrued PTO though. No other requirements. I had one manager that would ask why I am taking PTO and HR said it was legal... pissed me off. That hasn't happened in years though.
Post by lilypad1126 on Jan 22, 2021 13:05:29 GMT -5
We have no policy that says we can't take that much time off at once. However, given the nature of our work, other than over the holidays, it would tough to do. I've done 2 weeks before, but I still have to check in periodically b/c there are some things only I can do.
There are no formal restrictions/policies on how much can be used at once but it is up to manager approval. It's rare to get over 2 weeks approved unless there are special circumstances because of of coordinating proper coverage, but they try to be flexible because some people have large amounts of PTO and we have restrictions on how much you can have banked. A few years ago I requested 2 weeks off to travel abroad and my manager (who is HR) balked a little because even she had not taken that much time off at once. It was a approved, everything was fine and now its more common in our department for people to take longer chunks of PTO. It helped that I took it at a slower time of year.
My company does not provide anything close to that amount of PTO even if you factor in every sick day, every vacation day, and the 6 reward days that it is possible to earn.
I did work in retail grocery and I had tons of PTO there and I could use as much as I wanted if it was approved. In fact, one year I chose to take off the entire month of February.
Post by litskispeciality on Jan 22, 2021 13:20:29 GMT -5
We get a decent amount of PTO and have no written policy...but it's frouned upon to take more than one week at a time. We just had someone with over a month of use or lose PTO have to use by a certain date have to take a week off, come back, then take a week off for a couple of months. It was silly, but having them out for a whole month would have hurt us more (only one person who can do the job). Trust me it's frustrating, especially looking to the future where I probably won't take a week off for another year, I want two weeks when it's safe to travel.
We have a lot of international employees where I work, so I think it's not uncommon for people to take 3-4 weeks off at a time, especially if you're going to visit family.
This is the case with where I work too. And there are no restrictions above manager approval, and the overall culture is "You earn it, you use it".
Their only formal requirement is that you take 5 days in a row at some point during the year. I haven’t taken more than 2 weeks at a time but someone I know did take 3 weeks for a honeymoon so I think if you have the time you could take it. I generally am expected to be available for an emergency though, my company is full of single points of failure. So I tend to bring my laptop on vacation.
I get 4 weeks vacation plus 5 sick and 3 personal days so it’s a generous policy for America. (I am from Ireland where 5 weeks vacation and just take a sick day if you are sick is common)