Millennials are 'quiet vacationing' rather than asking their boss for PTO: 'There's a giant workaround culture'

Bet its like the Tide Pod thing. Like 4-5 people did it and media sprung on it like its the hip new dabpen vape skibidi fortnite trend or whatevet

To be fair, if you did you'd keep that shit to yourself. Same with all the people that work multiple remote Dev jobs.

Not quite the focus of this article, but I've personally 'worked from home' while on kind of a soft vacation.

During Covid, found a great trail which had alright cell reception at the summit. I had a few days where I'd go hiking in the morning and work on my hotspot for near the top. Had a few weeks off and on working on a balcony in Florida overlooking the beach. There's definitely some out there taking full days off and doing nothing, but I feel like a lot of the mentioned 'time off without telling your boss' is probably closer to situations like that.

I haven't used all of my PTO for the last couple of years because I haven't really had the money to enjoy it. While I am salary and didn't get OT, due to traveling for work and some other oddities working more did generally result in my making more money indirectly. Once I have dug my way out of my debts (college, some medical, nothing that isn't manageable for me) I plan on taking every day I have and traveling as much as I can, and I want to get to that point as quickly as I can.

It also helps that what I do at work and what I do for fun look so similar that even coworkers looking over my shoulder at what I am working would have no idea if what I am doing is for work or myself, so I can get a fair amount of screwing around on company time in which helps prevent burnout.