National Leave the Office Early Day 2023

By Helene Segura, M.A. Ed., CPO® | May 12, 2023 |

National Leave the Office Early Day is coming up on Friday, June 2! If you’d like some background on how National Leave the Office Early Day came about, you can read my explanation here.

Whether I’m working with individual clients, associations or businesses, a common thread is that they’re short-staffed, and dedicated employees are putting in more and more hours than ever to make sure everything gets done.

This is admirable. It’s also a huge problem.

When a company’s best, most dedicated employees are not taking a break from work because they feel obligated to pick up the slack, that leads to lower productivity levels and eventual burnout.

If you are one of these hard-working individuals, you should be aware that not allowing yourself to disconnect from work and not allowing yourself to create downtime also leads to a downslide in self-care, health and well-being.

Lucky for you, the perfect “holiday” is just around the corner: National Leave the Office Early Day.

If you don’t feel comfortable taking several days off from work to rest, recharge and rejuvenate, what if you just took the afternoon off?

Go:

*to a movie

*home and take a nap

*to a restaurant you’ve never been to

*on an extra long walk with your dog or favorite human

*for that massage you’ve been promising yourself

*do something fun

*do something relaxing

 

Whatever you decide to do, please do not feel obligated to check your work email or texts. In fact, be sure to set your auto-responder before you leave work that day.

You owe it to yourself to get some rest. Enjoy!

 

 

If you need a step-by-step guide to leave the office early (or leave work behind for a couple of hours, a couple of days, or a couple of weeks), take a peek at these Escape from Work options in online or book format.

About Helene Segura, M.A. Ed., CPO®

As The Inefficiency Assassin™, Time Management Fixer Helene Segura empowers professionals on the go with the tools to slay lost time. Personal inefficiency at work leads to increased stress levels, lower morale, higher absenteeism, more turnover – and rising spending on employee health care and hiring. Why not improve productivity, decrease stress levels, and increase profits instead?The author of four books – two of which were Amazon best-sellers – Helene Segura has been the featured organization expert in more than 200 media interviews. She has coached hundreds of clients to productivity success and performance improvement by applying neuroscience and behavioral modification techniques to wipe out destructive, time-wasting habits.Helene turns time management on its head by sharing both client case studies and pop culture examples to teach her mind-bending framework for decreasing interruptions, distractions and procrastination so that companies can spend more time generating revenue.

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