Remove fist bumps in favor of hand sanitizers, pronoun and greeting stickers to everyone

After great discussion from the team, we've decided to

• Remove fist bumps
• Add verbiage about doing our best to add hand sanitizers during contribute
• Provide pronoun stickers during contribute check in
• Provide greeting stickers during contribute check in

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Original description

I would like to propose we remove fist bumps in favor of providing hand sanitizers to everyone during events such as Contribute.

Although fist bumps are a fun way to greet people and we've been doing it for a while, I've had some conversations with GitLabbers who have highlighted a few potential implications that we may want to consider as reasons for removing this policy.

Reasons why fist bumps may not be ideal compared to handshakes

• Fist bump has strong negative roots/ties to bro-culture (which is counter to our values of diversity and inclusion) https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/11/the-fist-bump-manifesto/280175/
• Handshakes are still considered the global gesture for greeting one another, it is the proper etiquette that we do with our customers, investors (eg. handshake deal). If we do it with them, we should consider doing it with other GitLab team members
• When team members meet for the first time, it can already be a little awkward. Performing a fist bump greeting escalates the awkwardness even though it is written in the handbook.
• Team members with rings may find it uncomfortable to fist bump
• According to https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/fist-bump-better-handshake-cleanliness-201407297305 handshakes also convey warmth, empathy between two parties. It is unclear if fist bumps offer the same results.

From what I recall in the past when we introduced this to the handbook, the original intention behind asking everyone to fist bump instead of handshake was to decrease the chances of team members being sick.

The original article quoted to support that statement also mentions No matter how you greet someone, washing your hands often will do more to keep you from spreading germs than giving someone a first bump.

As we seek to build a more inclusive and diverse company, I would encourage us to remove the fist bump policy in favor of encouraging everyone to wash their hands more frequently and by providing hand sanitizers for all