Has anyone been told by their manager that they are taking too many R&R days? What is being considered too many? I took the same amount previously given prior to unlimited and got a lecture of taking advantage. The way I see it is if I had 4 weeks vacation and 2 weeks health time that gave me six weeks. Now it is one bucket. Should I not still have 6 weeks?
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You log your unlimited PTO in workday.
You also log your Out of Office time in clarity.
Since this is Fiserv, I assume both get logged to different reports and those teams do not talk to each other.
How are they tracking the PTO, when I worked at Fiserv if you had unlimited PTO you couldn’t even log it in Workday. So HR had no way to track it.
We just got the word from our manager. She was reamed by HR audit
I take half days and whole days as often as I need to. My immediate supervisor has no problem with it because it never negatively impacts my work. I took a week at Thanksgiving and am taking at least 2 weeks at the end of the year. If they have a problem with it, that's their problem. I don't intend to change my plans.
So long as you are meeting commitments (which I’m sure you are) and not dropping any ba--s (which I’m sure you aren’t) then unless you are trying to take like 80 days a year or 3 weeks at a time then your manager should not say a word.
If they are going to mandate set days in office and give us unlimited PTO then they must know folks will take time off when life happens.
Unlimited BS.
Leadership has been scrutinizing # of days people are taking even though most are unlimited plan. There are several reports circulating with "offenders."
I take one week off every other month and two weeks in December!
If I still worked at Fiserv, I would abuse the f**k out of it
I applied for 365 days, awaiting feedback on my request
It seems that unlimited time means just that, unlimited. For my own guidance, I take exactly what I had prior to the policy change. If you have been loyal and work hard for a long number of years, then you earned it. Does not matter which regime is managing the company.
I try to take off at least one week every other month, which is what I earned prior to the new policy!
Every company switching to the hilariously-named "unlimited PTO" is doing so to hose their employees in two ways: (1) reducing layoff payouts and (2) banking on employees being reluctant to take time off, out of concern over being compared to others who take fewer days. Do you want to be the one who stands out? Of course not. The idea of marketing "the company now owes you no days off" as "unlimited PTO" was a masterstroke of C-level thought. I wonder how many employees initially thought they hit the jackpot?
Anyway, were I subject to this model, I would not only take the number of days I had under the previous plan, but I would also take the days as I "earned" them. In other words, divide the yearly total by four and use that amount of days every quarter. Anyone under the new plan who saves the majority of their time 'til the end of the the year is, in my opinion, acting foolishly. Forget about taking nice break over the holidays to be with the family. Those days are gone. Take your time ASAP.
It's simply a bait and switch. We'll tell you that you can have unlimited time off. However, if you take more than we deem appropriate then we'll give you $hit for it.31
To clarify - any Fiserv holidays are paid: Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Day. Any other days are unpaid.
BTW - I heard that they will dock your severance if you take any days after they give you your notice. People were given a 12/28 date in October and any holiday days off are basically unpaid.
I'd ask them if they know what "unlimited" means. If they offer it and you use it, well that's no fault of yours.
As with everything this regime does, it was concocted with an ulterior motive. Avoiding payouts on RIF's. Also works well for understaffing. They can now deny you based on the extreme workload, ie. four people carrying the workload for ten as they don't backfill anymore.
Unfortunately it’s up to the manager to manage this.
Too many people wait until nov & dec to try to take all their time. Not everyone can be off at once.
"I’m getting laid off and trying to take what I had last year, but manager won’t approve remaining time in Dec. yet. It is even during the change freeze when I can’t do anything anyway. Liars."
I wouldn't be working very hard during that time if I was you.
"Has anyone been told by their manager that they are taking too many R&R days? What is being considered too many? I took the same amount previously given prior to unlimited and got a lecture of taking advantage. The way I see it is if I had 4 weeks vacation and 2 weeks health time that gave me six weeks. Now it is one bucket. Should I not still have 6 weeks?"
30 days off a year, how many years have you worked at Fiserv? If it is over 10 and you spread it out over the year I would be ok with it as a manager.
I’m getting laid off and trying to take what I had last year, but manager won’t approve remaining time in Dec. yet. It is even during the change freeze when I can’t do anything anyway. Liars.
I’m taking exactly what I had last year. Obviously they want us to take less and will start the practice of guilt tripping us into taking less and less each year.
Only documented guidance was in the clarity training. 15% of your time should be admin which is 39 days for the year.
Did you squeeze all of the time off into one quarter? Maybe the complaint isn't the number of days but when it is being taken?
My manager said to "take whatever you had last year".
It is manager's discretion. Some leaders have clawed previous scheduled time off back, and some understand the additional hours put in to get the work done and are more flexible.
I wondered when they would start coming after us. So that would be the current monitoring attack?
I am making sure I take at least what I had in the old schedule. I dare them to come say something.