- June 8, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
By Gerri Detweiler
After observing the exhaustion on her employees’ faces during a Zoom call, this entrepreneur decided … [+] to do something extraordinary.
altanaka – stock.adobe.com
It’s been a brutal year for many businesses and their employees, and employee burnout has become a serious issue for many companies. One entrepreneur recently observed the “utter, soul-crushing exhaustion” on the faces of her employees during a Zoom call and decided to make the radical decision of shutting down her business for a full month to give them time to rest and reenergize.
“I decided to give our whole staff the month of August off—paid,” says Kate Compton Barr, cofounder and CEO of pip & grow, a company that offers sleep solutions for new families. “No one will be checking email, filling orders, running campaigns, or developing new products. No work. None.”
The company is in the process of launching an infant safety and sleep…
