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.”
And much to her surprise, her company not only responded, but quickly acted to add cleaning services as a benefit for employees.
Le told Fortune she ”genuinely didn’t” expect the company to respond that way, especially since she had just started at the company only a few weeks ago.
“You hear a lot of organizations talk about valuing their people and prioritizing culture, but Slate actually demonstrated it in a very real, very immediate way,” Le said. It wasn’t performative. They didn’t overthink it. They just listened and acted, which says a lot about how seriously they take their team.
