A friend was working
in the office
during Canada’s communications outage.
Communications in that office,
phone, internet, etc.,
were inaccessible.
Her manager refused
to give them the day off,
telling them to do
what they could manually.
What did they do?
They spent the entire day
talking about the communications outage.
No one was working.
On days like that,
emergency days,
disaster days,
if you can,
if tasks don’t have to be done
that day,
give your employees
the day off.
They are unlikely to be working anyway
and it creates goodwill.