Machine wise k8s is rock solid and I never need to touch it.
Client wise, will be a few support tickets…
Do you mean additional to their PTO? That's nice, many people feel obliged to take it off for family even if they'd rather do something else with a whole week off and see family on weekends and such.
I once worked at a place that tried to always give close the office two extra days during that span. As long as Christmas wasn’t a Wednesday, they always made it such that you had an extra long weekend twice in a row, and announced it in early November so people could plan well enough in advance.
They also, for planning purposes, assumed that there were only 11 months in a year. That is, each person was only expected to do one full month of work total in Nov and Dec. it gave people time to catch up, work on tech debt, learn something, experiment with something, shop, take vacation, etc. I’d say that more often than not it was overall more productive.
It's not like anyone gets anything done.
Out of curiosity, what were the circumstances that made this not workable for the remaining 1 of the 6 years?
But awesome enough someone from the support team stepped up and took it for the team so everyone else got the week off! So it’s cool to have a cool team.