US Labor Day: Google allows employees 4-day extended weekend to avoid burnout

Google gave its employees an additional one-time paid leave for “collective wellbeing” over the US Labor day weekend, CNBC reported. Now along with Saturday, Sunday on September 5-6, and an off on Labor Day on September 7, full-time employees and interns were encouraged to take the Friday before Labor Day off as well, making it a four-day long weekend. This comes at the back of comapnies extending work-from-home norms amid rising cases of coronavirus across the world.

“We strongly encourage you to take this day off — and managers should actively support their team to reprioritize work commitments in order to do so,” a document with the internal forum for Google employees said.