Google’s Employees Burnout Exit Strategy You Should Steal Of
During this pandemic and work from home culture, Google have been catch up and figure ways out to strategize on how to keep everyone is having work-life balance, both mentally and physically.
Burn out is a condition where we fueled up by exhaustion and occurs by symptoms like stress or frustrated. A lot of thing can triggers the burn out. In the office, it may vary from tight deadlines, stressful jobs, lack of support and resources, unconducive environment and many more.
So how does the biggest tech company cure their employees burnout? They addressed the issue only with three-word: No Meetings Week
Leave your meeting for 7 days.
There have been hundreds of stories where employees meeting during pandemic are extremely piled up one to another. No meeting for 7 days obviously sounds like heaven.
In one week, employees are encourage to work on their task individually or even take on full day vacation. This helped employees a lot to rest their body and simply just re-arrange all the schedule in a more proper time management.
Working from home perhaps looks like more flexibility, however, moving in from one meeting to another meeting and even do two meeting at the same screen is insanely draining. Imagine that you need to combine stacks of workloads, striving to have me time and the need to cleaned up your home or office room — this just hang you to the peak of burning out.
This is instead caught no work life boundaries.
Google initiatives sounds simple. In fact, many start-up and tech companies have following similar ideas to be implement in their companies. Including Indonesian unicorns like Gojek and Tokopedia. They have one day off for meetings. Dare to join?
Written by Retno Yuniarsih
