Days in lieu (DIL) are extra time off, approved case-by-case when work or travel impacts your personal time (weekends, regional holidays) or when extra recovery time is needed. Once a day in lieu is approved they can be used the same way as a PTO day.

We use days in lieu to make sure travel - especially long-haul or weekend travel doesn’t come at the expense of rest. Meetups are high-energy, high-engagement time, and we want everyone arriving rested and at their best, not depleted.

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🚧 Time in lieu must be pre-approved by your manager and Georgie. It is not back-dated and is automatically declined if it is requested after the date.

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Meetups + travel: how it works

• Travel time doesn’t come out of PTO — travel days are treated like work days, and we’ll support you in working your schedule around them.
• If you travel over your weekend or a regional holiday to get to/from a meetup, you’ll be allotted additional days in lieu.
• If long travel requires a recovery day so you can arrive rested and at your best, that recovery time can be days in lieu.

Example (long-haul)

For folks traveling on multi-leg journeys (with layovers and multiple flights) or with 20+ hours of one-way travel, you may need extra recovery time so you arrive rested and at your best for a work engagement on Monday.

If you need to leave home on Saturday, and use Sunday to recover before a Monday work engagement:

• Saturday = paid travel day
• Sunday = days in lieu (travel + recovery)

20+ hours one-way:

If your travel is more than 20 hours one-way, you receive one day in lieu total (not per leg).

Other reasons days in lieu come up

Days in lieu may also be approved when you’re required to work during time that would normally be off, like:

• being scheduled on the support queue during No FOMO week while most of the team is offline
• being pulled into a work emergency during an approved day off
• high priority work that falls on a PTO day

<aside> ❓ If you have questions, we’re here to help. If anything’s unclear or you need assistance planning your time off, don’t hesitate to reach out to your manager or DM @Sarah Tessier on Slack.

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