10-day holiday break for WeWork employees this Diwali
Global coworking space provider WeWork has offered an extended 10-day Diwali holiday for all its employees in India.
The company stressed that the extended holiday break will help employees take a break from work and spend quality time with family this Diwali.
According to Priti Shetty, director of people and culture at WeWork India, the move is intended to give employees time to relax and recharge. business today informed.
He said the company had exceeded internal benchmarks and that the 10-day vacation is a “gesture of gratitude toward the entrepreneurial spirit of every WeWork employee.” He added that they have decided to make the holiday an “annual ritual.”
The New York-based office space provider also took a 10-day break over the festive season last year. He had said the break was to give staff some downtime and help them celebrate Diwali with their families.
Last month, e-commerce platform Meesho took a similar step by announcing an 11-day company-wide program.”Reset and Reload Break” for his staff while highlighting the importance of mental health.
Sanjeev Barnwal, founder and CTO of Meesho, wrote in a tweet that the company is offering the break for the second year in a row to help its employees maintain work-life balance and enjoy the festive season.
“Meeshoites will be taking some much-needed time off to reboot and reload from October 22 to November,” he wrote.
a survey about mental health by Deloitte revealed that poor employee mental health costs Indian companies around $14 billion a year due to absenteeism, lower productivity and attrition.
In the survey entitled “Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace”, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP (DTTILLP) analyzed the current state of mental wellbeing among Indian employees.
It found that 47 percent of people surveyed believed that workplace-related stress is the most important factor affecting their mental health.
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