More CEOs Break With Always on Tradition and Prioritize Vacation
CEOs are breaking with tradition to prioritize time off.
With so much responsibility on their shoulders, top executives face the highest risk of burnout of any job level, according to data from Qualtrics.
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Each summer, Daniel Chait does something unconventional: The Chief Executive Officer of a 650-person software company turns off his cell phone for a week.
While fellow high-powered executives might balk at vacations that leave staff unattended, each year Chait paddles out into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a million-acre national forest at the border of Minnesota and Canada. He sets an out-of-office message asking those who email him to find resources without him. Few things truly need the CEO’s attention within a 24-hour period, he said.