• Taylor Swift announced her engagement to Travis Kelce on Tuesday. • H&R Block, a tax preparation company in Kansas City, gave staff the afternoon off to celebrate. • "Go home. Celebrate love. Speculate about the dress," H&R Block's chief people officer said.

A tax preparation company in Kansas City knew employees weren't going to get much work done after news of the local equivalent of a royal engagement dropped.

H&R Block said it gave its employees the afternoon off on Tuesday, when Taylor Swift announced her engagement to Travis Kelce.

The company posted an email from its chief people and culture officer, Tiffany Monroe, on Instagram on Tuesday.

"When your Chief People Officer understands the assignment," the post's caption read.

In her email, Monroe told employees that "Kansa

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