Who comes up with this shit. If someone is sick they shouldn't come to work at all, ever. You should encourage people to stay home so they don't get others sick. If they can manage, have them do a little work from home.
Moving from a small (10 person) company to a building with 1000 people in it I went from almost never being sick to getting sick 3+ times every winter.
Strongly encourage your employees to stay home when they're sick as long as they're getting their jobs done. If they're out frequently or for a long period of time (4+ days) require a doctor's note. That's your sick policy. Done.
I've never understood the whole "doctor's note" thing. When you're sick, the last thing you want to do is go out in the cold or rain, ride the train with other possibly-sick people, sit in a doctor's waiting room with other definitely-sick people, just to get a note that says something you might be able to prove with an e-mailed photo of the thermometer you just took your temperature with.
Well, then we can all turn off our computers and go home, because something that "works" is obviously good enough and the entire software industry doesn't need to exist anymore. Most things we have today "work" but we're still improving on them because "good enough" isn't good enough.
The question you're not asking is whether your replacement is better than the existing solutions. Slack isn't. It's closed source, proprietary, and tied to a third party's servers. I'm not going to tie my projects or company to that kind of anchor.
It's like being your own lawyer. It's possible, and in the past it was much simpler — but things are so complex now that it doesn't ultimately seem worth it. As complexity grows so does reliance on specialists.
I can't stress this enough: learn how to cook tofu. I held off on being a vegetarian so long because I had a bad tofu experience, but I eat it 2-3 times a week now and I've grown to prefer over chicken. Fry it, braise it, bake it... there are a lot of options. Mushrooms are a similar story.
My diet is primarily: Rice, beans, tofu, mushrooms, and various greens. I've never really been a salad person, and even as a vegetarian that's still generally true.
This has always been my understanding as well. I've always tried to write HTML in a manner that would remove all presentational aspects to the point that I could redesign an entire site by changing the CSS only.
I use them in Chrome all the time, I have thousands — I basically search them as kind of a personal google... for those "Oh I remember reading an article about that once, let me find it"
Yeah, but how do you find that only from the title? Many times the title doesn't really represent what I remember about the article and that was in the corpus of the article.
Yeah it's a bit hit or miss because of that — I really wish I could literally make my bookmarks a private Google of content I've seen. Usually there are a series of things I try like "I think it was on X site" or a few keywords that I think were in the title. It works for me maybe 80% of the time.
