New Delhi, June 13 -- Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Piramal Finance, Jairam Sridharan, has spoken at length about the outcome of taking a long break from work and social media, and the realisation it brought him. In a LinkedIn post, Sridharan shared that when he returned from his 16-day break, he was greeted by thousands of unread messages and emails. Yet his biggest realisation was simple: "Everything in the world has carried on just fine without me."

Describing his time away, Sridharan wrote: "Returned to 'normal life' yesterday night, after a 16 day break. Per my usual custom, for these 16 days I did not access email, didn't pick up any calls, stayed away from WhatsApp, didn't engage in any social media chatte...