Kick-off your shoes and take a load off. This is essentially the message from Nike to its employees when it announced that workers would be given the week off to support their mental health following in the wake of the pandemic.
Nike’s headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, was announced to be “powering down” for the week, according to a LinkedIn post by Matt Marrazzo, a senior manager of global marketing science at Nike.
“Our senior leaders are all sending a clear message: Take the time to unwind, destress and spend time with your loved ones. Do not work,” the post read.
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For Nike and Marrazzo, taking time to rest and recover is “key to performing well and staying sane.”
A Nike spokesperson confirmed that it had closed its offices in different locations for a week, CNBC reported.
The company is “enabling employees to enjoy additional time off to rest and recover,” the spokesperson said to CNBC.
Marrazzo shared that the past year had been “rough” as the world fought against the coronavirus pandemic; he went on to describe it as a “traumatic event.” Even still, Marrazzo shared that he was “hopeful that the empathy and grace we continue to show our teammates will have a positive impact on the culture of work moving forward.”
Marrazzo thinks that the move by Nike made an effort to “prioritize mental health and still get work done.”
Other companies have also decided to give employees a vacation to fight against burnout. Bumble did so in June, and LinkedIn did in April. Both gave a majority of employees a week’s paid vacation to help employees recharge.
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