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Whole Foods' CEO key to work-life balance
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8/2/2024
Whole Foods’ 46-year-old CEO doesn’t believe in skimping on PTO. Instead, Jason Buechel emphasizes taking time off, and even changed the PTO policy to ensure staff are taking vacations away from work.
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I'm probably very abnormal here. I pretty much am in the grocery store at least twice a day,
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every single day. So it's about 14 times a week, I guess, which is probably typical.
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And in some weeks it might even be a bit more. I typically am up no later than six o'clock central
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time. If I'm traveling in on the West Coast, sometimes I'm waking up a little bit earlier.
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The first thing I do is I do look at my phone, ultimately checking to see what emails might
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have come in, sort of any key updates that might be taking place. I like to run in the morning,
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so I also like to run when there's at least a little bit of light. I try to run somewhere
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between five and six days a week. I run anywhere between four and 10 miles. What I eat in the
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morning and even sometimes how often I eat in the morning depends upon what my workout routine is.
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Lately, I've been really loving blending together some mushroom, vegan, vanilla protein mix with
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oatmeal, with bananas and peanut butter, and then some chia seeds. It is absolutely delicious.
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Most of my meetings will typically start between eight and 830 every morning. On a typical day
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where I'm not traveling and visiting stores, I probably have about 10 meetings, but I do a lot
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of travel. One of the things I'd love to do is actually pick out my own lunch. And I happen to
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work above one of the best places to eat in Austin, which is our flagship store. I typically
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am having our salad bar as one of the things I have just about every single day for lunch. I would
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say I'm usually done by six. I like to sort of unwind after work, and it could be a walk. I'm
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sort of someone who's a little bit of a night owl, but I've really come to appreciate making sure that
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I'm well rested. I find I can work with six well. I think when I'm doing more strenuous activities
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and maybe a long run, that's where I'm looking for a few extra hours of sleep.
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