Time Away

We are deliverable-based, not clock-based, so there is no leave ledger — there is communication.

• Contractors manage their own schedules. What matters is the agreed scope and milestones; plan your time away so commitments hold, and tell the people your absence affects before it starts.
• Interns coordinate time away with their supervisor ahead of time, so sprint planning can account for it. Reasonable time away is never held against anyone — unannounced disappearance during committed work is a different matter (see work ethic).
• During client engagements, absences that affect the client's sprint or SLA must be flagged to the engagement lead early enough to cover them — see client engagements.

Rest is part of doing excellent work. Take it, plan it, communicate it.