Bumble Closes Offices For A Week To Give 'Burnt-Out' Staff A Break

Bumble's decision to allow its employees a week off was widely praised on social media.

Bumble has temporarily closed its offices this week to allow employees a chance to de-stress. According to a Bloomberg report, around 700 employees of the dating app have been told to take a "much needed break" to recover from Covid burnout. Good publicity and a morale boost for staff. Win win. Wow! This is a big deal, especially in America where paid leave is scarce!Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break https://t.co/44LWaSiLa6 Useful curative measure: will be interesting to see what longer term preventative measures are settled upon to avoid rather than treat burn-out. #burnout#wellbeing#workplacewellness Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break https://t.co/k0Tr9jRuxg The decision was praised on Twitter by Bumble's head of editorial content, Clare O'Connor, on Monday. In her now-deleted tweet, Ms O'Connor said that founder Whitney Wolfe Herd had taken the action "having correctly intuited our collective burnout". The past year has been a busy one for Bumble. The dating app, which allows women to make the first move, made its stock market debut in February this year. The pandemic-induced lockdown only contributed to its popularity as millions of people, quarantined at home, swiped right to beat the lockdown blues.  According to BBC, the number of paid users across Bumble and Badoo, which Bumble also owns, spiked by 30% in the three months to 31 March.