HR Besties: How to Make the Most of Paid Time Off
HR BESTIES
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🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Moist legal team in the night club
- Cringe corporate speak: mission critical
- Hot topic: all things time off: how to make the most of your time off and enjoy your vacation
- Bringing the work laptop?
- Total focus on what you're doing in and out of the workplace
- Rest to do your best
- How to support your team members so they can take time off comfortably
- Practicing what you preach as a leader or HR professional and keeping boundaries
- Time should be off (not "off-ish")
- Unlimited PTO
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | Have you all ever gone on a vacation with coworkers? |
| 0:07.2 | Yeah, actually, I have. |
| 0:09.5 | I don't think so. |
| 0:12.3 | Why would I do that? |
| 0:13.7 | Where'd you go, Jamie? |
| 0:14.5 | We actually went a lot of places, Savannah, Panama City, Chicago. I mean, we were work besties, but we also were outside of work. |
| 0:23.8 | Were these work trips or just fun, pure fun trips? No, these were just like fun trips. |
| 0:28.8 | What if that was it? That was my story. Okay. So I once went on a vacation with two colleagues at work, |
| 0:37.0 | and we were in the legal department. |
| 0:38.7 | It was another lawyer and our assistant. |
| 0:40.8 | And we went to Miami. |
| 0:43.1 | And part of how this trip came about is we were living in Atlanta, and we had locations |
| 0:47.5 | kind of all over. |
| 0:48.9 | And the head of this division was talking to us and was like, oh, thank you all so much for |
| 0:53.7 | all of your work. I'm like, oh, thank you all so much for all of your work. |
| 0:54.4 | I'm like, oh, thanks so much. But you could really repay us with a trip to Miami. |
| 0:59.4 | And he was like, you know what? He's like, you all do work hard. Let me see what we can do |
| 1:03.5 | and then like hook you up. Yeah. And so we had credit at like really nice hotels. And this |
| 1:09.9 | was the hotel that was, I just had to look it up how you pronounce it, the Fountain Blow in Miami. Is that right? I was thinking Fountain Blue. Fountain Blue? Well, I don't know because it's E-A-U. So I just watched a YouTube to figure it out. But I think it's, I think it's Fountain Blow. But anyway, we went, we definitely called it Fountain Blue. We got a room. So the three of us |
| 1:29.1 | shared a room, which is a topic that I think maybe we have or we'll cover. But so we had a room. |
| 1:34.6 | We were at this hotel and we were like three moms, but we got there and like a team member |
| 1:39.8 | from the Miami office had led us like bag with like bottle of vodka, bottle of stuff and gift cards |
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