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allowed to sell PTO days to other employees

I wanted to get your guys thoughts on this. I knew someone whos SO worked at a hospital and they told me they have a market place where they are allowed to sell there PTO to other employees, I asked what the average PTO day goes for but never got an answer but I wanted to get your thoughts on this concept (for the record the hospital has a pretty good benefits package from what I have heard) I have personally have mixed feelings on this if someone has used all there PTO and needs an emergency day, they can buy one this seems good on the surface but also bad in the aspect of not being able to take an emergency day if you needed it If someone is tight on money then they can sell there PTO or invest it or do W/E with the money a part…


I wanted to get your guys thoughts on this. I knew someone whos SO worked at a hospital and they told me they have a market place where they are allowed to sell there PTO to other employees, I asked what the average PTO day goes for but never got an answer but I wanted to get your thoughts on this concept (for the record the hospital has a pretty good benefits package from what I have heard)

I have personally have mixed feelings on this

  1. if someone has used all there PTO and needs an emergency day, they can buy one
    1. this seems good on the surface but also bad in the aspect of not being able to take an emergency day if you needed it
  2. If someone is tight on money then they can sell there PTO or invest it or do W/E with the money
    1. a part of me feels the answer to this is paying a living wage but everyone has emergencies and I thought if it was me I would be willing to sell my PTO for home improvements, down payment on a house or a vehicle and I could probably see my self selling at some of my vacation for these purposes (though I would not want to sell all of it)
  3. This doesn't seem to cost the employer anything, they pay out the same amount of PTO but it costs some employee something to “buy” a PTO day which feels like the employer pushing the cost of business to the employee
  4. As far as I could tell the system did not allow employees to simply cash out the PTO directly through the company

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