India, Aug. 19 -- A Swiggy employee has praised the company's leave policy which stipulates that if a mandatory holiday falls on a weekend, employees get the following Monday off. Saptarshi Prakash, head of design at Swiggy, shared a LinkedIn post on the policy, calling it an underrated perk of working with the food delivery aggregator.

"This is one of the most underrated things about working at Swiggy. If a mandatory holiday falls on the weekend, the following Monday is a holiday," Prakash said in his LinkedIn post on Monday.

The post came just one day after Independence Day, which this year fell on a Saturday. While many professionals across the country rued a 'missed day off' from work due to the national holiday falling on a weekend...