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This and insider threat mitigation is exactly why audit standards in regulated industries include mandatory vacations.

My favorite part of working in banking. Minimum week no contact per year. All these other industries would call me about (trivial) things when I was "off". Regulations forced people to respect (some) time off

I've never been a manager, but my favorite managers always lead by example - they would take arbitrary time off, and would be completely unreachable during that time.

As a senior eng, I try to do the same when I have time off - work notifications are muted, and my away message is typically set to "I'm away for X days. If you to reach me, no, you don't."

A week is too short. The bank I worked at had mandatory 3 weeks, which did not count against your PTO.

1 week, people can mostly ignore your job function and limp by

2 weeks, people can do ~50% of your job and limp by

3 weeks, you do need someone to complete all/most of your job functions.

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