'Make everyone feel good' | Boss' unusual offer to lower staff stress levels

Employers may offer their staff various benefits that relate to their business. For example, Pets at Home allows its employees to take ‘Peternity Leave’ if they have a new dog or cat to settle in, while accommodation provider Airbnb gives each employee £1,400 upon joining the company that they can spend on, in more usual times, travelling the world.

Yet, one boss is making headlines with her not-quite-usual-HR way of allowing staff to take some time for them and let off steam.

This boss, Erika Lust, who heads up an adult entertainment company, has decided to offer her employees daily half an hour self-relief breaks - okay, masturbation breaks - after discovering that they had become ‘agitated’ throughout the lockdown period, in the hope it will “make everyone feel good”.

Lust hopes that it will ‘normalise’ self-relief, reported LadBible. Commenting on the move, Lust shared: “I value my employees and I know that when they feel good, we do good work.