When Christina Le posted generally on LinkedIn about mental health, burnout, and work-life balance, she didn’t expect her company to respond. Le, the head of marketing at social media content creation platform Slate, had offered one small suggestion for executives: “If companies are refreshing benefits this year, here’s a free idea: Add a cleaning service stipend.”
While wellness stipends and gym perks “are fine,” she wrote, “not everyone wants to spend their limited free time on a treadmill. For a lot of us, a clean home does more for our well-being than another obligation.” Le argued a home-cleaning perk could be more “practical. It’s human. It takes one thing off the list.”
