Unlimited PTO is indeed a scam. However, minimum PTO is not.<p>My company (only 1 employee, myself) has a minimum vacation policy of 6 weeks per year. This year, I’ll be using something like 8 weeks in total. Last year, I used 12 weeks. The year before, 7 weeks.<p>It literally doesn’t matter if someone takes a day off here or there because they don’t feel well (and it doesn’t matter whether it’s mental, physical, whatever). They wouldn’t be producing any meaningful value anyway. Likewise, if we’re talking about a longer period, like a burn out, forcing someone to stay and work is not going to generate happy clients.<p>I’ve seen companies force someone to work while they were grieving because they weren’t _technically_ related to the person who passed. End result? Depression, poor performance, and the employee was let go a few months later.<p>In Denmark, you can easily go to your GP and get a few months off for “stress” anyway (that’s Danish lingo for burn out). The company can still let you go I guess, and that’s fine.<p>In many places, Denmark included, whether you have an unlimited vacation policy or not, you need to keep track of the holidays and whatever. The accounting needs to be done in either case. “Minimum vacation” just improves on this because the accounting is done for a reason: to make sure people get enough rest and time off. People not taking enough time off should be a red flag. And this belief must be espoused across the entire organisation.