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The always-on culture is killing remote work from the inside.
When your office is your living room, the boundary between "work hours" and "life hours" dissolves. Slack notifications at 9pm feel normal. Checking email on vacation becomes reflexive. And burnout creeps in wearing the mask of productivity.
Company-wide shutdowns solve what individual PTO cannot: the guilt-free guarantee that *everyone* is offline. No "just one quick question" pings. No fear of missing something important. No colleagues working while you're not.
Some companies close for winter holidays. Others schedule quarterly recharge weeks. A few give the first Friday of every month off. The structure varies, but the principle is the same: collective rest, enforced at the company level.
We analyzed our database of remote-first employers to find 20 companies that don't just offer time off—they mandate disconnection together. Better yet, many are actively hiring.
Grafana Labs reserves 3 company-wide shutdown days per year, ensuring the entire organization disconnects simultaneously. When the company that monitors the world's infrastructure goes offline together, you know they mean it.
## How We Ranked These Companies Our rankings consider multiple factors: 1. **Remote Score** - Our proprietary measure of remote work maturity (0-100) 2. **Shutdown Quality** - Frequency, duration, and structure of company-wide rest periods 3. **Employee Signals** - Benefits, reviews, and culture indicators 4. **Hiring Activity** - Active opportunities posted within 30 days We analyze thousands of data points across hundreds of companies to surface the best remote opportunities.
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Twilio provides company breaks distributed throughout the year, not concentrated in a single period. Flexible shutdown timing respects diverse global contexts and prevents end-of-year burnout concentration.
Monarch Money gives every employee the first Friday off each month—that's 12 extra paid days annually for rest, recuperation, or fun. Monthly shutdowns create sustainable recovery cycles, not just an annual reset.
