HR & the Spirit of Summer
☀️ HR & the Spirit of Summer: Bringing a Little Sunshine Back to the Workplace Do you remember what June used to feel like? The countdown to the last day of school. The sound of flip-flops smacking against the pavement. Ice cream trucks blaring their music down suburban streets. Sleepovers. Sprinklers. Fireflies. Long days at the pool followed by even longer nights of freedom. Summer wasn’t just a season—it was a feeling. Then… you grew up. And June became just another month on the calendar—packed with meetings, deadlines, and quarterly goals. Summer break turned into “business as usual,” with the whimsy buried under piles of paperwork, overflowing inboxes, and calendars blocked from 9 to 5. But what if summer didn’t have to vanish? What if we could bring some of that childhood magic back—right into the workplace? As an HR consulting firm that partners with businesses across the country, we hear the same thing over and over again from leaders and employees alike: burnout does...