Time-Out Zone

Extra days that stack, not scatter

Additive tags grant bonus days on top of the base allowance, seniority, on-call duty, union extras, or any rule of your own. One tag per category, every bonus itemized in the balance, and guardrails that hold at submission.

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Extra days: what the market and the law expect

+5 days

the statutory extra vacation for severely disabled employees in Germany, scaled by workweek

1.1 million

severely disabled people employed in Germany whose extra days someone has to track

49%

of German employees work under a collective agreement, where extras above the legal minimum are the norm

30 days

the standard collectively agreed vacation in Germany, against a legal minimum of 20

  • In the US no law grants extra PTO days, so bonus days are pure policy, and with 2.8 million people working on-call as their main job, duty-based extras are how that work gets recognized in time, not just pay.
  • In the DACH region extra days are often the law or the contract: Germany adds five days for severe disability and shift-work extras by agreement, Austria scales night-work leave up with years of service, and many Swiss agreements add a fifth week from age 50.

Figures from German statute and federal statistics, collective-agreement archives, and a 2023 US labor survey. Rounded.

Every bonus, itemized in the balance

The balance breakdown shows the base allowance and each additive tag as its own line, plus two seniority days, plus three on-call days, adding up to the effective total. No one has to ask where their number came from.

Seniority: bonus days that wait for tenure

A seniority tag can carry a minimum-tenure gate, like 24 months. Assign it on day one; the bonus stays locked until the person actually reaches the mark, then applies on its own. Different from tenure scaling: the tag is a group you choose, not an automatic ladder.

Duty bonus: extras with guardrails

On-call and hazard-duty tags grant days that come with rules: a monthly cap on how many can be spent, and blackout windows where they cannot be used at all. Both are checked at submission, so the bonus never undermines coverage.

Union: agreement extras, tracked properly

Collective agreements often promise more than the statutory minimum. A union tag turns that promise into days the system actually tracks: tag the members, the extra days stack on the base, and the balance shows them itemized.

Custom: any rule you need

Not everything fits a template. A custom tag is a name and a number of days, project leads, first-aiders, fire wardens, created in one modal and stacked on the base like every other bonus.

Stacks on the base

Additive days sit on top of whatever base applies, the org policy or a replacement tag. The base stays intact; the bonus adds.

Four categories

Seniority, Duty Bonus, Union, and Custom. Each category covers a different reason for extra days, with its own rules where needed.

Tenure gates for seniority

A seniority tag can require minimum tenure in months. The bonus unlocks when the person qualifies, not before.

Guardrails on duty bonuses

Duty tags can carry a monthly spending cap and blackout windows. Both are enforced when the request is submitted.

The details, spelled out

One tag per category

Each person carries at most one additive tag per category, up to four in total. Qualifying bonuses all sum up.

Visible as Additional PTO

Every bonus appears as its own line in the employee's balance breakdown, and approvers see the effective total.

Assigned where it fits

Tags reach people directly or through team and department, and the same person never gets the same category twice.

Personal override wins

A policy assigned directly to a person switches all tags off, replacement and additive alike. Individual assignments always win.

Values in the visuals are examples. Every tag's days, gates, and caps are configurable.

Categories

Four reasons for extra days

Each additive category maps to a real-world reason for granting more time off.

  • Seniority rewards years of service and can wait behind a minimum-tenure gate before the bonus applies.
  • Duty Bonus recognizes on-call and hazard work, with a monthly cap and blackout windows where the extra days pause.
  • Union and Custom carry agreement extras and one-off rules, a name, a number of days, done.

Guardrails

Rules that hold at submission

Bonus days are real days, so their limits are enforced where requests are born.

  • A duty-bonus monthly cap counts what is already booked in the month before letting more through.
  • Duty-bonus blackout windows block requests on protected dates, with the tag named in the message.
  • A seniority gate simply defers the bonus: assigned today, effective when the tenure mark is reached.

Visibility

Everyone sees the same math

Stacked bonuses only work when nobody has to guess.

  • Employees see each bonus as an itemized line in their balance breakdown.
  • Approvers see the effective allotment including tags, right in the approve dialog.
  • Managers see how many days the tags add on top of the team base in the policy view.

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Feature

Replacement segmentation

Feature

Tenure scaling

Feature

Blackout periods

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Give us a call. We'll translate your agreements and duty rosters into additive tags and show the stacked balance before you commit to anything.

Replacement Segmentation

A whole different policy per group, via one tag.

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Tenure Scaling

Automatic extra days at service milestones.

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Frequently asked questions

What are additive PTO tags?
Segmentation tags that grant extra days on top of an employee's base allowance. Four categories exist, seniority, duty bonus, union, and custom, and every qualifying bonus stacks on the base and shows up itemized in the balance.
How many additive tags can one person carry?
One per category, so up to four. All qualifying bonuses sum up on top of the base; the same category never applies twice to the same person.
Do additive tags apply when someone has a personal policy override?
No. A policy assigned directly to a person switches all tags off, replacement and additive alike. Tags apply on top of org-level policies and replacement tags only.
What guardrails do duty-bonus tags have?
A monthly cap on how many bonus days can be spent and up to twelve blackout windows where they cannot be used. Both are checked when the request is submitted, before it ever reaches an approver.
How is this different from tenure scaling?
Tenure scaling is an automatic ladder on the leave type: everyone climbs it as their service grows. An additive seniority tag is a group you assign by hand, and its tenure gate only controls when the bonus starts to count.