Companies add timeout days and respite rooms as employment perks

Companies are giving workers more personal time and a break from stresses outside the workplace. “Mental health is the workplace crisis of our time,” said Lynee Luque, NerdWallet’s chief people officer. “We don’t feel that taking care of mental health is something that should just be lumped in with PTO or sick days.” NerdWallet recently began offering employees four paid self-care days a year in addition to its normal personal or sick days off.