in an interview published on December 26 that it requires its employees to take a week off and"unplug" from the company's system every year.
And if anyone contacts staff during their time off, they would be fined about $1,200, said Harsh Jain, Dream Sports co-founder and CEO. The company was valued at"Once a year, for one week, you're kicked out of the system," Jain told CNBC."You don't have Slack, emails, and calls." That helps the employee on vacation to have a week of uninterrupted break, and it also"helps the business to know whether we're dependent on anyone," he said.
Dream Sports employees are abiding by the policy so far."No one wants to be that jerk who called someone who was on unplug," COO and co-founder Bhavit Sheth told CNBC. The startup's policy echoes similar ones by larger companies to encourage staff to take time off work, amid a