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Why not just stagger the breaks? Say 1/3 of the staff doesn’t work for the next two weeks, then switch for the next two
The benefit of an approach like “entire company is shut down” is that (almost) nobody is working and sending email so people can really disengage.
We usually send a “do not send email” email right before the break.
We have some community and operations people on call / rotation and use different mechanisms to do right by them.