We Will Pay You To Stop Working. Stop Looking At Us Like That.
N° 03Rest as Infrastructure

Rest as Infrastructure · 5 min

We Will Pay You To Stop Working. Stop Looking At Us Like That.

"You do not get a discount on your humanity for working here. You get an upgrade."

PTO, sabbatical cadence, and the radical proposition that exhausted people make exhausted decisions.

We have read the literature. Then we read it again, drinking matcha, in a hammock, on company time, which is the most on-brand sentence we could possibly write.

Here is the policy: take what you need, with a floor of six weeks a year that we will gently insist on. Sabbatical at year five — eight weeks, fully paid, no laptop, no Slack, no "just a quick check-in." We will literally lock you out. It's romantic in its way.

The principle behind the policy is unsexy and load-bearing: rested operators outperform unrested operators by a margin that embarrasses the entire productivity-industrial complex. You do not get a discount on your humanity for working here. You get an upgrade.

What sabbatical looks like in practice: a former operator hiked a chunk of the Camino, came back, and shipped the best work of her tenure inside six weeks. We are not promising you a religious experience. We are promising you a calendar that respects the existence of one.

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