Yes, it is.  Even worse than the fact that getting 2 weeks off is considered a pretty good amount of time, there&#x27;s often lots of subtle pressure (that manifests itself implicitly in project planning) to not use it all at once.<p>This pressure isn&#x27;t universal, but I&#x27;d say the majority of the companies I&#x27;ve worked for hardly anyone ever took more than a week off in a go, and when they did it was the topic of uncomfortable conversation with managers kind of acting like the person taking the time off was doing something wrong (even if just kind of half-joking about it).<p>It really is an entirely weird situation, for all the talk of meritocracy and such the day-to-day reality is you are pressured not to take real PTO (paid time off) and instead just do the Office Space thing where you&#x27;re at work almost every day even if there are periods of time where you aren&#x27;t really doing anything productive for a large chunk of most days.