Actually respecting work/life balance. If an employee is off, don't have an expectation that they will respond to emails. If they are so "mission critical" that they can't actually take a day off, that's a problem.
I've wrestled with this a lot. How do you get rid of pervasive negativity and low moral? I think it would have to start by making more employees feel better as individual contributors.
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