We’re Shutting Down the Entire Company for a Full Week—Here’s Why The pandemic reminded us how important mental health is. So we’re making big moves to support our people—including a company-wide week off. Sabrina Jensen May 27, 2021 In 2020, as the pandemic surged across the globe, we went home. In-person interactions were cancelled, each to be replaced by a digital counterpart. By January 2021, the average internet user had accounts on 8.4 different social media platforms and was spending two hours and 25 minutes on social media every day (with seven hours total spent on the internet across all devices)—proving that the lines between the “real” world and its virtual parallel were now more blurred than ever.