A full-time associate’s weekly shift is four ten hour days, with a fifth day of mandatory overtime called at the company’s discretion. Full-time shifts at SDF8 are ten hours, so, forty-eight hours of personal time is not six days off per year, it is 4.8 days off. Vacation must be requested twenty-four hours in advance, must be approved, and cannot be taken during blackout periods (peak and prime day).
Personal time and unpaid time off can be used anytime. UPT is dispersed on the first day of the quarter in 20 hour chunks. PTO and vacation are distributed incrementally, a few hours per pay period. There are three types of time off for an Amazon Tier One associate: PTO (personal time–48 hours per year) UPT (unpaid time off–20 hours per quarter/80 per year) and Vacation (40 hours first year).