Washing-up & pickleball | What the world's top CEOs do to unwind

It’s a bit of a stereotype that CEOs are driven workaholics who never take any time out of their busy schedules to relax.

It’s certainly the case that CEOs work extremely hard – a Harvard Business Review found that CEOs typically work on 79% of weekends, averaging 3.9 hours a day, and on 70% of vacation days, averaging 2.4 hours a day, plus an average 62.5 days a week. However, burnout is also on the increase among the C-Suite – a whopping two-thirds of US CEOs are considering whether to resign their job due to burnout, according to recent research by Deloitte.

Clearly, it’s just as important that the CEO takes time out to rest and recharge their batteries as it is for any of their employees. After all, the rest of the company is relying on them to be fit and well enough to keep all those plates spinning!

And believe it or not, some of the world’s most famous CEOs are not attached to their work laptop 24/7. Let’s take a quick look at what some of them do to relax…