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https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210604-can-pop-up-work-holidays-help-workers-de-stress

All over the world, companies are adding spontaneous days off for employees who are burned out from overwork during the pandemic. Can these holidays help?

24/07/2021

The company started a campaign of what Finnegan calls “surprise and delight moments”. Every so often, they surprised employees with a Friday off, or a day of no meetings. The reception was generally positive, and survey responses began to show slight improvement, which Finnegan says led the company to plan the full week’s shutdown.

The element of surprise can be valuable to wor

24/07/2021

All over the world, companies are adding spontaneous days off for employees who are burned out from overwork during the pandemic. Can these holidays help?
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This spring, James Turbyville’s company announced they were adding two new long weekends to the calendar.

Turbyville, who works for a medical-information company in Georgia, US, says management at his job often sends out surveys to track worker wellbeing. After evaluating the responses, says Turbyville, “they said, you know what, this has been a big, hard year. We want to make sure we’re not putting too much stress and pressure on our teams. Let’s give them a couple of extra ‘wellness days’”. The company chose two Fridays – one in April and one in July – as extra days off for the whole staff.

In recent months, a swath of businesses, both large and small, have taken similar actions, offering employees ‘self-care’ days on top of regular paid time off. In April, LinkedIn shut down for a week, giving nearly all 16,000 of their global employees five days off. Since last summer, Google has given workers two impromptu paid holidays. And back in November 2020, Ryan Wuerch, CEO of cash-back app Dosh, started granting employees impromptu long weekends. The Wall Street Journal reported, “On some Thursdays, during all-staff meetings, Mr. Wuerch now surprises the company with the news that the following day is a ‘Dosh Day,’ when no work is allowed.