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Shelley Donovan
I'm curious if anyone has experience with an organization that moved from the standard policy of accruing vacation, sick, personal, and other categories of days off to a more streamlined PTO policy where there is only one bank of accrued time? If so, would you recommend it?
Sheri Graciano, SPHR:
I have experienced this and I have two pieces of advice. First, you want to make sure that your company culture is supportive of the fact that ...MoreI have experienced this and I have two pieces of advice. First, you want to make sure that your company culture is supportive of the fact that with PTO employees may be out of the office more often than they are when you have a more traditional time off policy. Typically speaking employees who earn vacation/sick time tend not to use all of their sick time each year - but with PTO, more employees will use all of their PTO each year. This means more time out of the office, of course. So as long as your culture is one that supports this, then PTO can be a great benefit.
My second piece of advice concerns the fact that you will find an employee or two who will refuse to use their PTO when they are actually sick. As a result, they may come to the office sick as a dog and spread their germs. To discourage this from happening, we made it clear to our staff that employees who come to work sick will be sent home and forced to use PTO hours. And then we stayed true to our word and actually sent employees home when they were sick.
Hope this helps!!
114 weeks ago
My second piece of advice concerns the fact that you will find an employee or two who will refuse to use their PTO when they are actually sick. As a result, they may come to the office sick as a dog and spread their germs. To discourage this from happening, we made it clear to our staff that employees who come to work sick will be sent home and forced to use PTO hours. And then we stayed true to our word and actually sent employees home when they were sick.
Hope this helps!!
114 weeks ago
Tony Deblauwe:
I would recommend one PTO bucket because it makes time off asking/getting easier for all parties.
112 weeks ago
112 weeks ago
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