For me, the best part of Christmas & new year holidays was the entire company (HQed in west) shuts down. Without exception almost every single office across the

For me, the best part of Christmas & new year holidays was the entire company (HQed in west) shuts down. Without exception almost every single office across the world shuts down. It means absolute radio silence, no emails, no slack messages, no nothing. I realised the usefulness of it only when I recently experienced it first hand. Unlike me taking two week personal leave, there's no anxiety of missing out on important decision, nothing to catch up on when I return. When everyone's back from Christmas holidays it's like the whole company wakes up from two weeks of hibernation. I found the break very refreshing. I wish we would do it more often, say twice a year or maybe even four times a year but one week each, one per quarter.