For years, American workers have racked up trend names for the various ways they’ve checked out of corporate life.
There was “quiet quitting,” then “bare minimum Mondays,” and more recently the “date them till you hate them” trend, in which disengaged employees stick around long enough to fall out of love with jobs they’ve already outgrown.
Now, one of the latest workplace trends is more practical and arguably more useful. Employees have figured out how to wring out every possible day of a standard PTO bank.
It’s called “PTO-maxxing.” And according to new data from mobile-first employee experience platform Blink shared with Fortune, the right calendar strategy can stretch 15 vacation days into as many as 49 days off in a year.
“Strategically spreading vacation days around federal holidays creates more breaks to prevent burnout before it starts,” Lauren Burns, chief operating officer at Blink, said in a statement shared with Fortune. “With summer quickly approaching, workers can make the most of Memorial Day, July 4, and Labor Day by using just one or two days of PTO to extend those three-day breaks into four- or five-day resets.”
