The tech giant encourages its complete workforce to take this holiday and has also encouraged its managers to actively participate and encourage their teams to reprioritize work to do so.

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Google has decided to give its employees another day off to avoid burnout as the workforce is working from home during this pandemic situation. 

The company declared September 4, as a “collective wellbeing”, one-time paid holiday for all its employees to relieve them from stress and relief. 

Google will further extend this holiday ahead of the Labour Day in the US, to a full-time holiday for all its permanent employees and interns. However, employees who are considered temporary or are vendors or contractors would not be able to enjoy this holiday. 

The tech giant encourages its complete workforce to take this holiday and has also encouraged its managers to actively participate and encourage their teams to reprioritize work to do so.

Although, if a manager identifies an “urgent business-critical need” wherein an employee has to work at the last minute, then she or he will be free to take the next available working day off.

The move came up as one of the ways to extend support to the employees, who will be working remotely until at least mid-2021, due to the ongoing contagion.

This extra holiday is restricted to the pandemic and will not be added to the annual calendar, which means that it is only specific to 2020, to support Googlers’ wellbeing amid the stress of the pandemic and its after-effects.

While some employees were willing to take some other day as a holiday, the Company has cited in an internal message that it is not an option.

Earlier, Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer, Google, had asked employees to take a day off on May 22, to address WFH-related burnout.