About a month ago, amid a particularly rough news cycle, Pam Selle, head of engineering for fully distributed tech company IOpipe, started to think of ways she could support civic engagement.

In keeping with the ethos behind 2016’s local Free the Vote initiative, the self-care enthusiast thought: Let’s make Election Day a company holiday.

“We decided it was a small (positive) step we could take as a company to encourage employees to vote, and to also give them well-deserved time off to do with what they will,” Selle said in an email. “With our company fully distributed (and with a healthy Philadelphia contingent), early voting or mail-in voting isn’t available to everyone in the company, so this is just one small thing we, as a company, can do.”

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