20 Remote Companies With Paid Company-Wide Shutdowns

Kit makes email marketing software for creators. The whole company closes for a global year-end break at the end of December, on top of its regular paid holidays.

Grafana Labs develops the open-source Grafana observability stack. Three company-wide shutdown days a year give the whole team the same days to disconnect — with no inbox piling up behind anyone.

Close builds a CRM for small, scaling sales teams. The entire company shuts down for a one-week winter break, separate from everyone's individual PTO.

Monarch Money makes a personal-finance and budgeting app. The company closes the first Friday of every month — twelve company-wide long weekends a year, on top of flexible time off.

Affirm offers buy-now-pay-later and installment lending. The company closes for a long weekend at least once a month — 20 paid Away Days a year, set on regional calendars and separate from flexible time off.

Thumbtack runs a marketplace connecting homeowners with local pros. It closes company-wide in both summer and winter, including a week-long end-of-year shutdown in December.

Kong schedules dedicated unplug days, which are long weekends when the entire team signs off together to rest and recharge.

Reddit runs one of the world's largest community platforms. Global Days Off close the whole company at once, alongside monthly global wellness days.

Dave is a virtual-first US fintech offering banking and cash-advance products. The whole company observes a paid Winter Break as a company holiday, separate from flexible PTO.

Quora operates the Q&A platform of the same name and the Poe AI app. Its benefits page names a paid, shared winter shutdown that closes the company over the holidays, though it doesn't publish the exact dates.

Twilio provides communication APIs for messaging, voice, and email. Its culture page and Open Work model both name paid company-wide breaks as a standing benefit, though it doesn't publish how many or when.

Help Scout makes customer support software for growing teams. The company closes for two full weeks each year, on top of each person's individual time off.

Docker builds the container tooling developers use to package and ship software. Quarterly Whaleness Days close the whole company for a day each quarter, and a designated end-of-year Whaleness break adds company-wide recharge time.

Webflow is a visual development platform for building websites without hand-coding. Company-wide refresh days are paid and sit on top of flexible vacation, separate sick leave, and local public holidays.

Mapbox provides mapping and location APIs for developers. The whole company shuts down the week between Christmas and New Year's so everyone disconnects at once.

Hopper describes an annual winter shutdown alongside unlimited PTO.

Mozilla makes Firefox and stewards the open web. Everyone pauses together on quarterly all-company wellness days — four a year, separate from vacation and country holidays.

Discord runs the voice, video, and chat platform. The company takes a week-long winter holiday shutdown, included within its 16 paid holidays rather than added on top.

Four company-wide Recharge Weeks create a planned week away from work roughly once each quarter.

Veeva builds cloud software for life-sciences companies. Its Veeva Break closes the company from roughly December 24 to January 1 across global offices — though in some regions the break is drawn from the annual holiday allocation rather than being extra days.