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Give your workers a lot of paid vacation. Humans are not machines - they need rest and relaxation. The 14 annual vacation days mandated by the Israeli government are a joke. You should give them much more than that. Joel Spolsky’s company - Fog Creek Software gives 6 weeks of paid vacation, which is much more reasonable.