The symptoms set in sneakily — foggy judgment, mounting malaise. They build into fatigue, frustration. Then there’s the inability to make key decisions: Pizza for dinner or Pad Thai?
People need a vacation. They always have. But especially when the office is closed, and work is what happens when you’re near your phone, which is to say every waking hour, employees need to recharge. Some are quietly asking permission to rest. Others know that their break is overdue, and now they’re getting nudges from the boss: log off.
“I don’t think I’ve taken one day off in 22 months,” said Carol Goodman, an employment lawyer at Herrick, Feinstein. “And it’s starting to catch up.”
Two years into a crisis that has scrambled the best-laid plans, and made time feel immaterial, office workers and their bosses are faced with a question: What constitutes an out-of-office status when people aren’t in the office in the first place?
So the C.E.O.s, ever ready to problem solve, have stepped in to mandate some fun. They’re being candid about their own time away. They’re forcing people to unplug (and stop sly checking Slack). And they’re making it clear — or trying to, anyway — that one expectation of a job is that you step away from it regularly.
The technology company Notarize created a required week off, Operation Chillax: “It’s the combination of chill and relax,” the chief executive explained in rolling out the initiative.
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