Are employees working while vacationing? Or are they vacationing while they’re working?

It can be hard to tell: 72% of employees say they work while on PTO, according to a recent survey from employee experience transformation company Perceptyx.

Working on PTO can be a sign of deeply-rooted cultural issues, said Emily Killham, senior director at Perceptyx and head of the Center for Workforce Transformation. She shared with HR Brew what people pros should know about the growing trend of “workcationing.”

What’s the deal? The Perceptyx survey identified three types of employee vacationers: Planned workcationers, unplanned workcationers, and true vacationers, Kilham told HR Brew. Planned workcationers take work devices on vacation and plan to respond to emails, while unplanned vacation workers attempt to unplug by leaving work devices at home, but end up working via personal devices.

In both scenarios, she said, employees are demonstrating a lack of boundaries between work and life. This may put them at risk for burnout, Kilham said, and even lead them down the path of “quiet vacationing.”

Keep reading here.—MC

Paylocity this week announced a new headcount planning offering for customers to support HR, TA, and finance teams with data-driven insights to better support workforce planning.

The move follows the HCM platform's December acquisition of Trace, a headcount and workforce planning software company.

The new offering marries new headcount planning capabilities with other Paylocity functionality, allowing HR leaders to better map out headcount needs with their colleagues in TA and finance.

“If you think about the connection to finance, the finance organization does a plan, either they have software to do it or they do it in Excel, and then they get files from HR to see how they’re doing versus their plan in a financial system,” Paylocity’s executive chairman Steven Beauchamp told HR Brew this week at the HR Tech 24 conference and expo in Las Vegas. “You can load that plan or create that plan in our software, and, because we have all of the promotions, changes, ads and the routing of approvals...we will do all your headcount planning throughout the year.”

Headcount planning is generally a finance-led operation. The company aims to transform headcount management for its customers into a in-real-time, cross-functional process, in which stakeholders across departments have access to the same data and insights in “a single source of truth” platform rather than in spreadsheets and siloed conversations between departments.

Keep reading here.—AD

People are burned out. What’s worse, the people leading the people are burned out, too.

Nearly all HR pros (95%) feel proud of the work they do, but almost half (47%) admit that work negatively affects their well-being and mental health, according to a Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) survey published earlier this year.

Daisy Auger-Domínguez, knows this feeling all too well. After more than 15 years in HR, she quit her job as the CPO at Vice to focus on her mental health. During this time, she realized how prolific burnout was within the people profession and wrote Burnt Out to Lit Up: How to Reignite the Joy of Leading People to let her colleagues know they’re not alone.

Auger-Domínguez discussed her book with HR Brew.

What personal experiences do you bring to this book?

What I write about in the book is what I believe is this collective exhaustion that we have all faced the last four years…I fundamentally believe that to lead well, we have to live well. And those of us who lead are most prone to burnout because…we have drank the Kool-Aid [and,] for some reason we feel that we need to push through, and have more grit and resilience than everybody else, and we have to push ourselves longer and harder to achieve results, and that makes us more susceptible to burnout.

Keep reading here.—MC

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Today’s top HR reads.

Stat: Boeing may be losing $50 million per day because of its striking machinists, one Bank of America analyst estimates. (Quartz)

Quote: “Their job is to get players to commit, so sometimes they’re going to say things they might not be able to back up.”—Mit Winter, an attorney who specializes in sports law, on college football coaches offering athletes false promises of lucrative signing bonuses (the Wall Street Journal)

Read: Middle management is so cringe. Some Gen Zers are "conscious unbossing” by focusing on growing as an individual contributor rather than working their way up to supervisor. (Fortune)