У супрацоўнікаў Microsoft у ЗША цяпер неабмежаваны аплачвальны адпачынак

В заголовке статьи написано: "неограниченный оплачиваемый отпуск"... Точно оплачиваемый? В оригинальной статье я что-то этого не прочёл. Просто "time off" и "paid time off" - это не одно и то же.

Here is what a Microsoft employee say about this new Microsoft rule.
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Do NOT join Microsoft. They robbed us & it‘s toxic #DTO

So the news is out and we know that we now get discretionary unlimited PTO as opposed to a specific amount of days. Sounds fancy and good for the people which is clearly NOT the case.

From now on vacation days don‘t accrue anymore which means if you don’t take your days you won‘t get the cash benefit anymore. Also, floating holidays are being taken off the table as well. Huge savings for MS
after April. Also laid-off people not getting vacation time paid out once they get fired. Again, big saving on the balance sheet.

The other even more problematic issue is that this is even more embracing a toxic work culture. We have lots of bullies in mgmt positions and a toxic manager like in my org will use this against employees to give them low / zero rewards for taking vacations.

With this change now your manager needs to approve and it‘s totally up to him to do that based on the justification you provide. It sounds obvious but this is a huge thing. Before, we basically just took the days off, informed the manager and that was it. Now they are empowered to say NO and play others against each other, stack rank them, etc.

Bottom line an already toxic place with lots of toxic managers became even more toxic. We clearly going from bad to worse and this is a preparation for future layoffs.

Managers are now encouraged to deny DTO if you're not meeting performance, but similar to LITE there's no guardrails around that.

We will see much more LITE connects / zero rewards, attrition and toxic games. Welcome to the new Microsoft where cheap tactics and toxic culture is the new norm.

RUN Away!
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Many people think that unlimited PTO is a "benefit", because HR said so, but in reality it is a bad thing.
Now hurry up and update your article.