Salesforce & Meta | Wellbeing days are a huge benefit to staff - so why are companies ditching them?

Everyone knows the feeling of being gifted back time to rest and recharge. It could be over some notoriously slow days in the mid-summer heat, or just before embarking on a short break over the festive period, but for employees, those days are hugely appreciated.

The feeling of relief, when working hard, at being told that the work you’ve produced is worthy of some much-earned time to relax is palpable. It’s for this reason that many progressive companies have, in recent years, started offering planned company-wide “shutdowns”.