"Given the intensity of our work throughout the year, we think this is often the simplest way to ensure our pace is property for the said,” same chief folks officer L.J. Brock.
Major U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase are giving its staff one week off every quarter in 2022 to recharge once “long days and long weeks” of intense work.
In a Monday journal post, Coinbase chief folks officer L.J. Brock said “nearly the whole company can shut down” for four separate weeks this year as a part of an experiment in permitting workers to recuperate once finishing intense workloads. Brock said the exchange’s staff aren’t essentially restricted to 40-hour work weeks and may need to “pivot at a moment’s notice,” seemingly creating the potential for burnout.
“We realised in 2020 that many staff weren’t taking enough day off to recharge, either because they didn’t need to force their teammates to hide for them or because they didn’t need to fall behind on their work,” said Brock. “We knew this was unsustainable, thus we tend to scheduled a recharge week at the tip of 2020 and 2 recharge weeks in 2021, once nearly the whole company would clean up [...] subsequent worker surveys created it clear: Recharge weeks work.”
Coinbase added:
“Four weeks of coordinated recharge time might sound like a lot of time off for a company in hypergrowth, but given the intensity of our work throughout the year, we think this is the best way to ensure our pace is sustainable for the long term.”
” The announcement comes as several U.S. employees are pushing back against unfavorable job conditions, usually leading to changing careers or quitting while not a definitive arrange — a trend several have started line of work "the nice Resignation." Cointelegraph according in September that positions requiring expertise in crypto and blockchain inflated in 2021, with several companies currently offering crypto payments to take advantage of the space’s seemingly growing popularity and attract new workers.
(Turner Wright,Cointelegraph, 2022)