Unlimited PTO sounds great until you realize most people don't actually use it. Nearly 40% of American workers skip vacation entirely, and "unlimited" policies often make it worse by removing the clear entitlement employees feel with accrued days.
These 30 companies figured it out. We evaluated over 200 remote-first and remote-friendly companies using our REMOTE Score methodology (a 0-100 rating based on remote work policies, async practices, and employee experience signals) and ranked them by how seriously they treat time off. PostHog requires a 25-day minimum. Ashby puts "Vacation?" on every 1:1 agenda. Coinbase shuts down entirely for company-wide Recharge Weeks. Buffer runs a 4-day work week on top of unlimited PTO.
These aren't companies that just list unlimited PTO on a job post. They built cultures where taking time actually happens.
The company that literally wrote the Remote Manifesto. GitLab's 2,400 employees work from a public handbook with Family and Friends days built into the calendar. Unlimited PTO at scale, documented.
## How We Ranked These Companies Our rankings consider multiple factors: 1. **Minimum PTO Days** - Companies with explicit minimums rank higher (PostHog's 25 days > Ashby's 20 days > unlimited/flexible) 2. **REMOTE Score** - Our proprietary measure of remote work maturity (0-100), used as tiebreaker 3. **Culture Signals** - Leadership behavior, documented policies, employee testimonials 4. **Remote Classification** - Only RC-FULL (fully remote) and RC-RFIR (remote-first) companies included We evaluated 200+ companies to surface the 30 best remote companies with unlimited PTO that actually works.
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Four weeks recommended, and managers check. "Vacation?" appears on every 1:1 agenda at Ashby. The recruiting platform practices what it preaches about people-first culture.
Proving unlimited PTO works at 580 employees. Camunda shows that flexible time-off policies can scale beyond startup size without devolving into unwritten rules nobody follows.
Flexible vacation with no accrual math. Reddit dropped the spreadsheet approach to time off. Take what you need without calculating how many hours you've banked.
Marketing automation without the hero culture. HighLevel has 100 open roles and explicitly avoids the always-on expectations that make unlimited PTO meaningless in practice.
Company-wide Recharge Weeks where everyone logs off together. Coinbase solves the "but what if someone needs me" problem by shutting down operations entirely. Currently hiring 245 roles.
The grocery delivery giant moved past startup hustle culture. Instacart now runs flexible PTO for a mature organization, recognizing that sustainable pace beats burnout-driven sprints.
Startup banking built remote-first. Mercury handles finances for thousands of startups and runs their own operations with the same modern approach. Currently hiring for 52 roles.
Zero tracking, zero accruals. The no-code platform takes a no-bureaucracy approach to PTO. Webflow trusts their team to manage their own time without surveillance tools.
Teams set their own core hours here. Nearform combines flexible annual leave with genuine autonomy over when you work, letting distributed teams across time zones find their own rhythm.
Twenty-five days minimum. Not recommended, required. PostHog's async-first team will actually follow up if you're not taking time off. Leadership treats rest as infrastructure, not a perk.
Six hundred people building the future of AI, working asynchronously by default. Hugging Face brings open-source values to how they work, not just what they build.
Async since before it was trendy. Monarch Money launched in 2018 with distributed work baked in. First Fridays off every month gives everyone a predictable long weekend, company-wide.
Distributed from day one. Brave didn't adapt to remote work; they started there. The browser company that blocks trackers also blocks the surveillance-management approach to PTO.
Async-first B2B infrastructure with a 75-person team. Stedi builds APIs for supply chains and runs their own company the same way: clear documentation, minimal meetings, genuine flexibility.
Unlimited PTO operationalized for 450 people. Customer.io figured out how to make flexible time off work at scale, with 21 open roles if you want to see it firsthand.
