Anna Stillwell <astillw...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > […]
> I also hear that the pause on the interactive work is temporary. I’ve heard > them request time. I am comfortable granting that request, but no one is > required to agree with me. They’ve also said that the person with the most > information is on vacation. As someone who has seen employees go through > considerable stress in the last years, the entire executive team is working > to establish some cultural standards around supporting vacations. We want > people here to feel comfortable taking proper vacations and sometimes that > can even need to happen in a crisis. People often plan their vacations well > in advance and may not know that something tricky will come up. Just so you > understand one bias I bring to this conversation. > […] I concur with DJ in his initial mail that this is not a use- ful practice, and I doubt very much that it relieves employ- ees' stress. It conveys the organizational expectation that employees are SPOFs without any backup. An employee should not experience their time off as a period where his work load is just temporarily buffered until his return, but where colleagues will step in and take care of business. Especially such a major decision like "pausing" a team should not depend on the inner thoughts of one employee, but be backed and explainable by others. Tim _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
