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Let's say that at your company, some employees get PTO (paid time off). If those employees had the option of donating their PTO to other employees (even those who normally are not eligible for PTO) how often you you suppose people would do this?
(Just a little survey to see if our client is insane....)
I don't think it would happen very much, but I think it would happen if someone has some difficult situation (illness, family turmoil, death in the family, that sort of thing) and runs out of PTO.
I wouldn't donate my own PTO, but I would happily accept gifts of such from others.
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In cases where the person who gets the PTO is dealing with a severe illness or the illness of a child, companies have seen a pretty significant amount of time donations.
In cases where the person who gets the PTO is dealing with a severe illness or the illness of a child, companies have seen a pretty significant amount of time donations.
Oh, that makes sense.
I was just afraid this would be one of those features that we spend a bunch of time developing and then the client never really uses it. (Not that it really matters to us, as we bill by the hour anyway.)
Where I temp there's an option like that, where an employee with extra time can give it to someone who needs it but doesn't have enough time. But it can only be given to someone who's eligible to earn leave (and not temp employees).
I've seen it happen a few times, mostly for sickness but also twice for time off to deal with the birth of a child ( once for a mother and once for a father).
We have it here, and it's usually used in the cases Ginger describes. I've never managed to accumulate enough leave to be eligible to donate (you have to have something like 200 hours or more), but I'll do so if I ever reach that point. It just seems like the decent thing to do.
At my last job, I didn't ever have time to take all my vacation and I was getting to the use it or lose point. I'd have gladly donated that time.
My dad has often given away time he wasn't going to use.
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