I feel very fortunate and grateful that I was able to send this Slack message to my team on December 19:
“ @here I want to thank everyone for a great year. We’ve accomplished a ton, and I think we need to stop and recognize it. My ask for everyone is to take the week off next week. We have a few things we need to be on-call for, and heaven knows we could use the time to write more tests, but I think it is important to pause, rest, and reflect.”
Im so glad that this is totally cool in our company and our culture. I wish this was the rule and not the exception.
That’s a fair point. The reality is that they all could have taken the time off individually anyway, this was just a small gesture to show my thanks for a great year!
“ @here I want to thank everyone for a great year. We’ve accomplished a ton, and I think we need to stop and recognize it. My ask for everyone is to take the week off next week. We have a few things we need to be on-call for, and heaven knows we could use the time to write more tests, but I think it is important to pause, rest, and reflect.”
Im so glad that this is totally cool in our company and our culture. I wish this was the rule and not the exception.