But one Aussie firm has gone one better than that and now offers an incredibly attractive “working from holiday” perk.

CEO of health food company Carman’s Kitchen, Carolyn Creswell, revealed the popular initiative on Q&A on Monday night.

The panel were discussing the benefits and drawback of working from home, with Ms Creswell explaining that her staff preferred a mixture of office-based work and home-working.

“We also have a work-from-holiday policy – so sometimes when people are going on holidays, we say, ‘If you want to work half days from holidays’, we allow them five days a year to work wherever they are in the world,” Ms Creswell said.

“For school holidays, you might say, ‘We’re going to go to Bali for 10 days but I’m quite happy to work nine ‘til 12 and I’m happy to keep up and I might do that three days a week just to keep on top of my workload’.

“That’s five days of the year that they haven’t had to take out of their leave policy.”

Ms Creswell explained that although staff liked the flexibility of working from home they enjoyed the social interaction office work gave them.

“There is a human connection and we find that a lot of people want to come back to the office because they actually enjoy it more,” she said.

“Often, people say – ‘Look, it’s convenient to work from home but did I love that day working from home?’ – whereas, often we’re finding who come into the office say, ‘You know what, I actually had a great day at work today’.”

Ms Creswell famously founded Carman’s Kitchen, which started life at a muesli company, when she was 18.

The Melbourne-based firm now exports to 35 countries and is valued at around $170 million.

As well a working from holiday Carman’s Kitchen has a number of wellbeing incentives to keep its workers happy.

Staff have access to a healthy food pantry where they can get breakfast and snacks and the company also offers subsidised lunches prepared by an in-house chef, as well as a gym with access to a personal trainer and a sleep pod.

They also offer a service to support employees moving house.

Staff also get doona days and a half-day off every quarter as well as the whole time off during the Christmas break, which doesn’t count towards their annual leave entitlement.

Speaking to an HR magazine Carman’s Kitchen CPO Lainie Tayler said: “Between Christmas and New Year’s, we gift those annual leave days so that people can take a nice decent break. “And we really encourage everyone to take that two weeks off.”

Ms Tayler said that the company’s generous leave policy mean that absenteeism is less than 1 per cent.

“We have really low absenteeism,” she said.

“And I think that’s because people can access and have the time off they need in a way that we can manage, and it’s proactive and they feel comfortable.”