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Nick Yates
8,621 PointsUnpaid Time Off?
Okay, so lets say I land a programming job, remote or on-site my question is, do most of these companies allow for unpaid time off? How lenient are they? Cause I typically take anywhere between 2-4 one week vacations throughout the year cause I like to travel and see family, and I typically do it for about a week minimum cause if not, then its not worth my time or money. So my question do most of these companies allow around 2-4 Weeks out of 54 weeks of the year for me to take off to travel and vacation so that you know I don't die because of work? I like to somewhat have a life. Am I asking for too much? Like how does it work? Am I only allowed to take time off if I have the PTO?
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Jeroen Pets
8,016 PointsHi Nick, not an easy question because it depends on geolocation of your company (country).
Here in Belgium, we've got 20 paid holidays that you can take a year, if you work 5 years for the same company you've get 1 day extra. And we are allowed to add 10 days unpaid vacation.
A colleague of mine recently worked a year in Toronto (front-end dev in a startup-environment) and he told me that the work/life balance was really crazy. People didn't need to work a full day (+-8hours), everybody managed their own hours. They just needed to complete certain tasks by a strict deadline, how they did it and when was not a question. Some people even lived at the company took their dogs with them, went for a jogging during the day etc...
Normally your vacation and how you need to work (regime) is explained at the second job-interview, after that we do a contract proposition and then you can choose if you want to work with us or not.