On a weekday afternoon, Ashwini Ashtankar sat on the financial institution of the Doodhpathri River, in a valley nestled within the Himalayas. Taking a deep breath, she observed that there was no metropolis noise, no air pollution — and no work emails.
Ashtankar, a senior instruments growth engineer in NVIDIA’s Pune, India, workplace, took benefit of the corporate’s free days — two further days off per quarter when the entire firm disconnects from work — to recharge. Free days are totally paid by NVIDIA, not counted as trip or as private break day, and are along with country-specific holidays and time-away packages.
Free days give workers time to take an journey, a breather — or each. Ashtankar and her husband, Dipen Sisodia — additionally an NVIDIAN — spent it outside, climbing up a mountain, taking part in in snow and exploring forests and plush inexperienced meadows.
“My free days give me time to give attention to myself and recharge,” stated Ashtankar. “We didn’t take our laptops. We had been in a position to fully disconnect, like all NVIDIANs had been doing on the similar time.”
Ashtankar returned to work feeling refreshed and recharged, she stated. Her workforce assessments software program options of NVIDIA merchandise, specializing in GPU show drivers and the GeForce NOW game-streaming service, to ensure bugs are discovered and addressed earlier than a product reaches prospects.
“I take satisfaction in tackling challenges with the best degree of high quality and creativity, all in assist of delivering one of the best merchandise to our prospects,” she stated. “To do this, typically the best factor we are able to do is relaxation and let the soul meet up with the physique.”
Ashtankar plans to construct her profession at NVIDIA for a few years to return.
“I’ve by no means heard of one other firm that actually cares this a lot about its workers,” she stated.
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