The new vacation policies come as America’s workforce—and those around the globe—contend with unprecedented levels of burnout amid the pandemic. More than 52 percent of workers are feeling burnout, according to the Indeed survey; a similar poll from The Conference Board puts the number of burnout workers as high as 60 percent. And 36 percent of workers say that more paid time off would help with burnout, Indeed's data says.
“Burnout is extremely common right now,” McBride says. “People are burned out not just from work, they’re burned out from parenting, caregiving, managing chronic illness, and the constant uncertainty in the air.”
Combating burnout was the principal reason that dating app Bumble gave its 700 employees a collective week off in June. “Our global team has had a very challenging time during the pandemic,” Bumble said in a statement to CNBC. “We wanted to give our teams around the world an opportunity to shut off and focus on themselves for a week.” The weeklong pause was given to workers in addition to existing vacation allotments.
Bumble's week of collective leave was such a success, it has decided to offer week-long, company-wide holidays to all its teams twice a year moving forward. "It’s becoming increasingly clear that the way that we work, and need to work, has changed and our new policies are a reflection of what really matters and how we can best support our teams in both their work and life," Tariq Shaukat, president of Bumble Inc., said in a statement.
Similarly, social media management platform Hootsuite introduced a company-wide “Wellness Week” in July, so its employees could “all ‘unplug’ together,” the company said in a release in May.
However there are caveats to some of the so-called collective vacation policies. Hootsuite and LinkedIn both said they left behind core teams of workers to keep things running when the rest of the company was out office. Those employees then got a week off after everyone else. And experts say that although synchronous vacation time is a good idea, there is more that employers can do to establish better practices around paid time off.
“Creating cultural norms around reduced email activity during vacations and holidays can help,” Pike says. “Establishing a culture where people get real vacation on a regular basis can have very positive benefits for morale, creativity, and productivity.”
Another key piece to the puzzle is how managers and CEOs approach conversations around vacation with their employees. “Workplaces can be mindful that people are more than just their work product; they’re actual human beings who have varied lived experiences in the pandemic,” says McBride. "The messaging at work can help people. The tone from the top can really make a difference."
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