How to Work Time Off In Lieu into Your PTO Policy
Time Off In Lieu, or TOIL, is a common HR practice, which is important to understand if you’re running a business or a team, or working in HR. It’s not…
A Full Guide to Consolidated Leave Plans
There’s a lot to consider when setting up your company’s PTO policy – how much PTO to offer your employees? Accrual or lump-sum? Unlimited PTO? There’s also the question of…
What is Negative Leave, and How Does It Work?
Managing leave is challenging enough when everyone sticks within the boundaries of your leave policy. But what about negative leave? Sometimes your employees might ask for time off that drops…
A Full Guide to Managing PTO for Remote Teams
Managing PTO can be difficult in any case. But with remote teams – particularly those with a distributed, global workforce – it’s even more complex. Fully remote teams have unique…
Is Use It or Lose It PTO Right For Your Business?
Use It or Lose It PTO is a leave management policy that has come under a lot of scrutiny in recent years. For businesses, Use It or Lose It can…
How to Calculate (and Manage) PTO for Part-Time Employees
In some businesses, setting up your PTO policy is relatively straightforward. Everyone works the same hours, and time off works the same for everyone. But what about when you have…
Can You Have Different PTO Policies for Different Employees?
Managing PTO is easy when you’re running a very small team, and everyone in the team has similar roles and their entitlements are more or less the same. At this…
Unlimited PTO vs Accrued PTO: Differences, Pros and Cons
Unlimited PTO is one of the hottest new trends in employee benefits to emerge in recent years. In studies from the late 2010s and early 2020s, unlimited PTO was found…
How Do Accruals Work While On Leave?
PTO accruals seem simple on the surface: it just means that employees steadily earn paid time off (often vacation, but sometimes other forms of PTO, such as sick leave, as…
Why Is PTO Important? 7 Reasons to Prioritize Paid Time Off
A lot of business owners, or department managers, or team leaders, balk at the idea of paying people not to work. It’s why the USA still doesn’t have any federal…