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In this Wednesday, May 31, 2017, photo, William Gadea, founder and creative director of IdeaRocket LLC, an animated video company, poses for a portrait in his office in New York. A growing number of small businesses are combining employees’ vacation and sick time into one bucket called paid time off, or PTO. For Gadea, offering PTO to his five staffers means he doesn’t have to be the arbiter of whether someone is really sick when they call him in the morning, coughing and asking for a day off. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

In this Wednesday, May 31, 2017, photo, William Gadea, founder and creative director of IdeaRocket LLC, an animated video company, poses for a portrait in his office in New York. A growing number of small businesses are combining employees’ vacation and sick time into one bucket called paid time off, or PTO. For Gadea, offering PTO to his five staffers means he doesn’t have to be the arbiter of whether someone is really sick when they call him in the morning, coughing and asking for a day off. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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