What is a micro-retirement? Inside the latest Gen Z trend

dexwiz 17 hours ago|

> While retirement typically occurs, after completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals called “micro-retirement.” Micro-retirements involve taking a one to two-week break from work every 12 to 18 months.

Wow, since when did a perfectly normal PTO policy get renamed? If anything this just sounds like pre internet vacations, where PTO meant actual time off, not working remote.

The article then goes on and repeatedly bashes the reader about how this might be "risky" for savings and career growth. If two weeks off a year is now risky, we're cooked.

JohnFen 15 hours ago|

In fairness to the article, they're specifically not talking about PTO. They're talking about unpaid leaves of absence.

It doesn't make the term "micro-retirement" any less cringe-worthy, though, as taking unpaid leave is also something that has been done since forever. Normal people just call it "unpaid time off" or, for longer durations, "leaves of absence".

dexwiz 15 hours ago||

Somehow it's even worse if it's unpaid. Sabbaticals and other unpaid leaves are usually a few weeks-months. Two weeks is well within PTO range.

jerlam 12 hours ago||

Maybe these employees are still taking time off even after they've exhausted their PTO allowance? New employees don't get a lot of time off in the US.

pinewurst 15 hours ago||

Didn't we used to call those 'vacations'?