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On the heels of quiet quitting and firing, this summer employers and HR professionals encountered the latest workplace trend: quiet vacationing, which is the practice of employees taking paid time off (PTO) to establish a better work-life balance by building in periods of reset without informing their manager or officially putting in a request for PTO.
There are many and varied reasons why this is happening. One is simply that workers don’t want to take time off, especially if they have insufficient PTO, and would rather bank as much time off as possible for a “real” vacation, holiday,