If you have an ok relationship with your manager, I don't think it would hurt to run it by them. I've seen several engineers pull this sort of thing off over th

If you have an ok relationship with your manager, I don't think it would hurt to run it by them. I've seen several engineers pull this sort of thing off over the years. As a manager myself, if one of my engineers who has been with the company for a while came to me asking for this, I would definitely support them. In this climate, the alternative is that they will probably quit entirely which would be a much larger loss.