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Paid time off (PTO) is a feature in some employee agreements that provides a "resource" of hours that an employee can draw from to take time off from work, without having to specify a reason.

Generally PTO hours cover everything from planned vacations to sick days. Unlike more traditional leave plans, companies with PTO plans do not separate time off from work between "vacation days" and "sick days".

For healthy employees, PTO can be an attractive benefit because, in general, they are offered more vacation time under a PTO plan than they would be under a plan that differentiates sick leave and vacation. The corollary to this is that employees tend to be out more frequently, which can be seen as a drawback for the employers. Another negative is that an employee who becomes ill, not having any dedicated sick time, might be forced to choose between either working while sick (usually at a lower rate of productivity, and often causing other employees to get sick), or cancelling a planned vacation (which may incur financial losses). On the other hand, an advantage is that a worker will be honest in scheduling time off in advance, allowing the company to plan around the absence, rather than "calling in sick" at the last minute.

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David Lazarus is an American business and consumer columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He joined the paper in August 2007.

Before joining the LA Times staff in 2007, Lazarus worked as a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and a nightly talk radio host for San Francisco's KGO Radio.^[1] He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.

He won first place in the 2005 National Headliner Awards contest for business reporting. And the Society of Professional Journalists in Northern California named him "Journalist of the Year" in 2001. A media watchdog site, Grade the News, described him this way: "Since coming to the Chronicle from Wired News in 1999, David Lazarus has been one of the most prolific, and influential, writers at the paper."^[2]

Lazarus is the author of two books on Japan, where he lived for several years, and has had articles published in many magazines. He had a small part in the 1976 film The Bad News Bears.

David lives in Southern California with his wife and son.

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