I have a tech job that became WFH after covid. Five years ago I went from 4 weeks vacation to “Open Time Off”, which is essentially no hard limit to vacation but your manager has to approve. The company also never owes $$ for unused vacation days this way.
The problem is I take 4-5 weeks off per year and my coworkers seem to only take 2 weeks now. It is not explicitly mentioned but I feel this is some type of loyalty test and I am now in danger of being one of the first to be laid off.
Besides that, I was moved to a small team of three people (one worker is new and not effective) so when I take vacation now it cripples our deadlines.
I just wanted to hear from others their experience on OTO policies and if they saw some of the same issues I see.