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Re:Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer by Sohcahtoa82 on Friday October 08, 2021 @03:50PM (#28803394)
The company I'm at effectively has that as part of their unlimited PTO policy, though the timing is company-mandated, being the first week of August and the week between Christmas and New Years, which is a week so many people are likely to take off anyways, it just makes things easier to make everyone take it off.

Going into the week off in August, I wasn't sure how seriously they took it, but sure enough, I didn't get a single e-mail that week other than weekly reports from automated tools. I even checked Slack that Friday, and there wasn't a single message except for the channel where people post pictures of fun stuff they do over the weekend.

It was pretty nice.

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Re:Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer by ghaff on Friday October 08, 2021 @06:25PM (#28804835)
I pretty much hate policies that require you to take PTO at specific times. They're almost never the times I would choose to take on my own and are often at times it's difficult to combine into a longer trip.
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Re:Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer by lazyasciiart on Friday October 08, 2021 @08:40PM (#28805904)
Having everybody take the time off can be good, but it doesn't achieve the goal of making sure all processes can go as usual while any individual isn't there, as mentioned in your peer comment about banks.
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