Vacation & Paid Time Off

Only 7 paid holidays. Oracle just switched to an "unlimited vacation" policy. Sick days allowed is reasonable but not generous.

IMO it's a BS move. It's all subject to management approval, in turn contingent on the work the employee's plate, which is completely arbitrary in the sense that management can assign any amount of any complexity and then use that as an excuse to limit your 'unlimited' vacation. Plus some groups are so over-worked with backlogs of bugs and deliverables there could be potentially no good time to take any significant amount of time off. They even sent out email to one department saying flex vacation could not be used to create a 4-day work week. The point is, it isn't unlimited or even close to it - it's merely a dumb and degrading euphemism. They might as well be insulting our intelligence. For example, if someone has 3 weeks of paid vacation a year they could have 15 4-day work weeks if they wanted to. Who is going to be able to take a solid 2 weeks off in a row lets say? And then followed up with 1 week off a couple of weeks later, for example. Much easier to assure one could get that at key times in a year when the company was obligated to provide or pay for n-weeks of vacation. With this change, they forced everyone to use-up the vacation they accrued before letting them use their 'unlimited' flex vacation, and the company stopped accruing the sign-on agreed vacation days based on time served and role. So this immediately disenfranchised everyone who had made plans with a reasonable certainty that they would get the vacation. It's just a sleazy way to screw over workers IMO under the feeble guise of an improvement. Meanwhile they haven't addressed the Winter shutdown - where they had people using their own vacation time then or be docked. So what if someone wants to take a week or two of paid vacation then? It sucks.

IMO it's a BS move. It's all subject to management approval, in turn contingent on the work the employee's plate, which is completely arbitrary in the sense that management can assign any amount of any complexity and then use that as an excuse to limit your 'unlimited' vacation. Plus some groups are so over-worked with backlogs of bugs and deliverables there could be potentially no good time to take any significant amount of time off. They even sent out email to one department saying flex vacation could not be used to create a 4-day work week. The point is, it isn't unlimited or even close to it - it's merely a dumb and degrading euphemism. They might as well be insulting our intelligence. For example, if someone has 3 weeks of paid vacation a year they could have 15 4-day work weeks if they wanted to. Who is going to be able to take a solid 2 weeks off in a row lets say? And then followed up with 1 week off a couple of weeks later, for example. Much easier to assure one could get that at key times in a year when the company was obligated to provide or pay for n-weeks of vacation. With this change, they forced everyone to use-up the vacation they accrued before letting them use their 'unlimited' flex vacation, and the company stopped accruing the sign-on agreed vacation days based on time served and role. So this immediately disenfranchised everyone who had made plans with a reasonable certainty that they would get the vacation. It's just a sleazy way to screw over workers IMO under the feeble guise of an improvement. Meanwhile they haven't addressed the Winter shutdown - where they had people using their own vacation time then or be docked. So what if someone wants to take a week or two of paid vacation then? It sucks.

You no longer have to earn time off, you can just take what you need or want

Comparable to other companies vacation plans

Vacation & time off is fair. They just started a flex vacation policy, which is a good change after the 'forced winter break'

Vacation is accrued at a reasonable rate and most managers are flexible with hours

maximun was 18 days, which is on the cheap side now there is no maximun, but you need manager approval for vacation days.

PTO and you can go negative with vacation hours.

Recently, no vacation accrual policy has been implemented i.e. employee can take vacation as per his/her manager's discretion.