> - Close the company. Maybe your company just isn't open for two weeks in December or nobody has to work on Fridays during the summer. Nobody feels like they'r

> - Close the company. Maybe your company just isn't open for two weeks in December or nobody has to work on Fridays during the summer. Nobody feels like they're falling behind and everybody gets a break from each other. TI, Raytheon, Lockheed, Northrop, and Boeing[1] close from Christmas Eve through New Years day, and virtually everyone takes the 3 or 4 days off that are required to round it out to two full weeks. A long-time TI employee I used to work with told me TI started doing this for overhead reasons. TI has a large number of fabs, assembly areas, and buildings that are basically high ceiling, wide open flex space. These areas all have to be heated or cooled as a whole, and the cost isn't much different if you have 2000 people in the building or 200. Somebody in corporate figured out that the company could actually save money by just giving everyone the days off and shutting down all the equipment instead of trying to get things done short-staffed. As a bonus, they figured they could sell it as a perk of working for TI. [1] I think