Meesho announces nine days of paid leave for all staff after promising festive season sales

E-commerce giant Meesho has been earning praises from a section of social media users after it came to light that it has declared a company-wide leave of nine days after impressive festive season sales.

The news came to light when the official LinkedIn account of the company posted about the same.

The post reads, “No laptops, Slack messages, emails, meetings, or stand-up calls, nothing work-related for 9 days! We're heading into our 4th consecutive company-wide 'Reset and Recharge' break from October 26th to November 3rd.”

“After the efforts put into this year and our successful Mega Blockbuster Sale, it's time to fully unplug and focus on ourselves. This break is for us to recharge our minds and bodies for a fresh and energized start to the year ahead,” the company further added.

Social media users were pleased with the company for thinking about the health and well-being of their employees before profits.

One user wrote in the comments section of the post, "I can not even imagine this in the current hustle-type work Culture across all Industries. Incredible, Meesho. You guys have set an example."

Someone also pointed out how the company is actually giving only three days off including weekends: "Exclude 26th-27th Oct (weekend) and 2nd-3rd Nov (weekend). Exclude 31st Oct (Diwali) and Nov 1st (Karnataka holiday) as well. It’s not 9 days, effectively it is 3 days." Other users were quick to point out how difficult it is to manage so many days without work for a company: "Difficult to afford a leave to the entire company for even a single day that too during festival time when you will expect more sales & e-commerce do work on weekends."

This news comes in the wake of a number of incidents where reports are surfacing of young professionals suffering health woes and even some succumbing to work pressure in the corporate environment.