Unlimited PTO Is on the Rise. Is This Perk as Good as It Seems?
WSJ Your Money Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
3.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Northern Trust Wealth Management. |
| 0:03.0 | There is more to being a successful entrepreneur than just good business practices. |
| 0:07.0 | What is it about an entrepreneur's childhood that helped fuel their entrepreneurial spirit? |
| 0:12.0 | What are entrepreneurs doing to cultivate the spirit in their own children and build a legacy beyond their business? |
| 0:17.0 | Tune in each month to the Road to Why podcast by the Northern Trust Institute, |
| 0:21.5 | where host Eric Chappaya dives deeper with leading entrepreneurs on these topics and more. |
| 0:26.3 | Find the Road to Why where you listen to your favorite podcasts. |
| 0:31.8 | Here's your money briefing for Monday, January 27th. I'm Adriana Aspuru for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:41.7 | As more companies remove the cap on PTO, employees struggle to balance the perk with the pressure to still be known |
| 0:47.3 | as a hard worker. It's largely because they don't want to look like they're slacking off. When they |
| 0:53.2 | have a set bank, say three weeks or four weeks, they say, I'm entitled to this. So I don't want to look like they're slacking off. When they have a set bank, say three weeks or |
| 0:55.3 | four weeks, they say, I'm entitled to this. So I don't feel any guilt about using that time. |
| 1:00.2 | But when it's supposedly unlimited, it really just comes down to what you feel comfortable using. |
| 1:06.4 | We'll talk with Wall Street Journal on the clock columnist,ist Calamborshers about the limits of unlimited |
| 1:12.0 | vacation time after the break. |
| 1:22.3 | This episode is sponsored by Northern Trust Wealth Management. |
| 1:28.0 | There is more to being a successful entrepreneur than just good business practices. |
| 1:32.1 | What is it about an entrepreneur's childhood that helped fuel their entrepreneurial spirit? |
| 1:36.4 | What are entrepreneurs doing to cultivate this spirit in their own children and build a legacy beyond their business? |
| 1:42.1 | Tune in each month of the Road to Y podcast by the Northern Trust Institute, |
| 1:45.8 | where host Eric Chappaya dives deeper with leading entrepreneurs on these topics and more. |
| 1:50.6 | Find the Road to Y where you listen to your favorite podcasts. |
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