Last year was my first year having unlimited PTO. The number of PTO days I used was a whopping 6. The year before the last, I had 15 working days of vacation per year and I could use any unused days up until the end of June the next year. So, I could take a 4-5 week vacation time every other year. This was useful as my home is across the Atlantic and visiting for 10 days doesn't really make much sense. This year, my second unlimited PTO year, I want to go back and visit friends. But I am afraid, if I tell them I am gonna be off for 5 weeks, it is not gonna sit well. So I will end up taking 2 weeks off and will work my ass off from half a planet away, for the rest of my visit. In my opinion. unlimited PTO is a ploy for the employers to prevent employees from accruing too much PTO time, which will end up making them either pay for those days or force the employee to take time off, sacrificing productivity. If your HR seems to establish a new policy which looms like it is employee centric, look closely and you will find the hidden agenda, benefitting the company, not the employee. Kust like this unlimited PTO bullcrap. Call me a cynic if you will...