Gurugram-based company declared Monday off to help employees cope with World Cup loss: 'Will come back stronger'

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World Cup 2023 on Sunday. After the defeat, cricketer Shreyas Iyer said "... it still hasn't sunk in and it won't for a while".

And that seems to be the situation for many Indians. But one Gurgaon-based advertising company is making waves on social media for offering its employees a unique way to cope with the loss. The Gurgaon-based company, Marketing Moves & MARKETING MOVES AGENCY, granted "one-day leave relaxation to everyone (employees) due to the impact of this loss".

Diksha Gupta, one of the employees of the company, took to social media site LinkedIn to share the "twist" she received from her boss a day after the World Cup defeat. In a post, Diksha Gupta he is " associated with one of the renowned agencies, Marketing Moves & MARKETING MOVES AGENCY" and "was leading some of the major Brand Campaigns with my team for the World Cup 2023". "20+ projects, 25+ days, and 90+ meetings look easy when it comes to the World Cup.

I did not know where this energy came from but all I can say is that this was the World Cup Cricket Fever. It was tough for me and our team as well to cope with this loss after being entirely engrossed in the World Cup campaigns," she said in the LinkedIn post. "But, here comes a twist!" She said that on Monday morning she "woke up with a message from my boss granting a one-day leave relaxation to everyone due to the impact of this loss".