Company Culture

Two Business Class contributors, Amber Anderson and Scott Steinberg, offer opposing takes on the effectiveness of unlimited paid time-off (PTO) as a hiring and retention tool. Unlimited PTO is a vacation policy that welcomes employees to take as much time off as they choose as long as it doesn’t interfere with their ability to do their jobs. The pro case argues that when deployed within a healthy company culture, unlimited PTO increases productivity by refocusing success around quality instead of time. The opposing case thinks unlimited PTO does not work well in unpredictable and client-facing industries and can have its underlying goals better served by flex-work.