Gwyneth Paltrow spoke about giving her Goop employees three weeks off each year duringGoldman Sachs' 10,000 Small Businesses Summit, which took place earlier this month.During her appearance at the entrepreneurial event, the 49-year-old performer opened up about why she chose to let her collaborators take considerable time off from their positions.The Academy Award-winning actress previously founded Goop in 2008 and the company has since become the subject of criticism for its promotion of alleged pseudoscientific ideals.
Opening up:Gwyneth Paltrow spoke about giving her Goop employees three weeks off each year during Goldman Sachs' 10,000 Small Businesses Summit, which took place earlier this monthPaltrow began her explanation by stating via People that she was impressed by how, while living in London, she came to admire the European life-work balance.'I think one of the things that I really came to admire about the Europeans is that they really value a quality of life and time with the people they love and eating and they're not on their, as it were, Blackberries at the time, like all the time,' she said.
The Shakespeare In Love actress went on to express that she tried out a similar approach upon her arrival in the United States.'I would kind of notice a difference between being in New York and being back in London.
And when I started the company and I started hiring people, I always just shut off the company for two weeks in August,' she stated.
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