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Companies Are Battling Burnout By Giving Employees More Vacation Days—But Will They Take Them? Share to Facebook Share to Linkedin More than one in five companies are offering employees more vacation time this year, a recent survey from executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas finds. Getty When Kate Compton Barr paused just long enough in a recent Zoom meeting to notice the exhausted expressions on her employees’ faces, the CEO of socially responsible baby product company...

Cofounder, Vraiment Financial , Raleigh Working as a mother of three in the banking industry, Bradley found that her schedule was often at odds with her family responsibilities. She and her husband Vincent decided to open their own financial services firm, Vraiment Financial, in 2019, offering accounting, tax preparation and grant research services to its more than 300 clients. To date, the couple’s grant research service has assisted business owners in receiving up to $50,000 in funding. Fou...