As someone that generally likes their day to day work, and dislikes arbitrarily Mandatory Corporate Fundays, I really just wish companies would stop this hack days nonsense. It just means I'm going to be more behind on tasks I'm already behind on.

To do a hackdays successfully, I find good projects have already had a lot of personal upfront investment before the hackdays project. The hackdays project then assembles a team of potential labor that might (or often not) accelerate the idea to a demo. And then, even if there's a snazzy demo, you have to engage in a tremendous push after the hackdays to turn them into successful projects.

I can just as easily spend my time doing this in normal planning channels. And instead of hackdays, maybe we should encourage prototyping and demos to be part of the normal planning process, not some out of band activity likely to screw up schedules and deliver nothing.

Please, companies, stop these mandatory corporate fundays. And just fix your normal planning processes.