A workplace habit can survive because nobody knows who is allowed to stop it.

Practices outlive their reasons when authority over them has gone vague. Everyone suspects the weekly report goes unread, but nobody is certain they are the person entitled to end it, so it continues on the strength of that uncertainty alone. What keeps it alive is not belief in its value; it is the absence of anyone who feels permitted to say stop.

Pick one such ritual and find out who actually owns it, which often takes two questions. Then ask directly whether it can be paused for a month and see who objects. Usually nobody does, and the month becomes permanent without any argument.