I think you're exactly correct, and "unlimited vacation" is almost always better for the company than the employee. Here's a great essay on the ills of a polic

I think you're exactly correct, and "unlimited vacation" is almost always better for the company than the employee. Here's a great essay on the ills of a policy like this: http://jacobian.org/writing/unlimited-vacation/ http://jacobian.org/writing/unlimited-vacation/ One of the main issues it that the US is one of the few (maybe only?) industrialized nation that doesn't require companies to offer PTO: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statutory_minimum_employment_leave_by_country http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statutory_minimum_emplo...