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WSJ Your Money Briefing

Instead of Using PTO, Some Workers Are Taking ‘Quiet Vacations’

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

3.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Taking a ‘quiet vacation’ is the latest social media trend taking off in the workplace, where employees are taking mini-vacations during their remote days. Wall Street Journal reporter Sanvi Bangalore joins host J.R. Whalen to discuss how some workers are redefining work-life balance. Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's your money briefing for Wednesday July 17th. I'm J. R. Whelan for the Wall Street Journal.

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Instead of requesting time off, some workers are taking many vacations while they're on the clock

0:35.1

under the guise of working remotely. Oftentimes two people are not satisfied with

0:41.8

the amount of PTO days that they get annually and

0:44.3

they want to reserve those PTO days for either medical emergencies or real

0:50.6

robust vacations that are often international and they use this strategy

0:55.7

to take more vacations a year. We'll talk to Wall Street Journal reporter

0:59.8

Sanvi Bangalore about quiet vacationing, after the break. TnB Tech Minute gives you the day's top tech headlines featuring newsmakers that shape

1:18.1

the tech world and beyond like Open AI CEO Sam Altman.

1:22.0

The two things that I think will matter most Open AI CEO Sam Altman.

1:22.6

The two things that I think will matter most over the next decade are abundant and inexpensive.

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Intelligence and abundant and cheap energy.

1:32.2

And if we can get these two things then it's almost difficult to imagine how much else we could do.

1:38.0

Check out T&B Tech Minute in the Tech News Briefing Feed from the Wall Street Journal. For many people, their summer getaway will be a quiet vacation.

1:55.0

Wall Street Journal reporter Sanvi Bangalore joins me to explain.

1:59.0

Sanvi, about how many vacation days do workers in the US get on average?

2:04.0

U.S. private sector workers get on average 11 days of paid vacation after one year at an employer

2:11.0

and 15 days after five, according to the Labor Department and that's if

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