No employee of any organization ever should return from a parental leave except on a Thursday or Friday. If you make it on a Monday, the stretch of fairway between you and Friday afternoon is just going to look like from here to forever. Another technique that I've seen people do is to tell people, I'm coming back on May 15th, but to actually come back on May 13th. That lets them come back, go through emails, read through documents,. plan their calendar, do other things.

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