{"id":280704,"date":"2021-06-22T14:39:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T11:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dating-app-bumble-gives-staff-week-off-to-combat-burnout\/"},"modified":"2021-06-22T14:39:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T11:39:18","slug":"dating-app-bumble-gives-staff-week-off-to-combat-burnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dating-app-bumble-gives-staff-week-off-to-combat-burnout\/","title":{"rendered":"#Dating app Bumble gives staff week off to combat ‘burnout’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Dating app<\/a> Bumble gives staff week off to combat ‘burnout’<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Bumble, the dating app where women make the first move, has shut down its offices worldwide and given its staff of 700 the entire week off \u2014 to help combat \u201cburnout.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Austin, Texas-based company said it made the move \u201cas a way to thank our team for their hard work and resilience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Work will resume on June 28, the company said. <\/p>\n

In a since-deleted tweet, Clare O\u2019Connor, Bumble\u2019s head of editorial content, praised the decision by Whitney Wolfe Herd, the firm\u2019s founder and CEO.<\/p>\n

\u201c@WhitWolfeHerd<\/a>\u00a0gave all 700ish of us a paid week off, having correctly intuited our collective burnout,\u201d O\u2019Connor wrote in the tweet. \u201cIn the U.S. especially, where vacation days are notoriously scarce, it feels like a big deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other apparent employees also cheered the move. <\/p>\n

\u201c5pm! It\u2019s holiday time! (Thanks @bumble<\/a> for the week off),\u201d tweeted user @thiagocatao<\/a>, who says in his bio that he works on the product side of Bumble. \u201cThe whole company is off to recharge, so I\u2019ll have time to actually explore London.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arkadii Ivanov, who describes himself as an Android engineer at Bumble, also thanked the company for the vacation time on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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What a great time\u2026.<\/p>\n

Off to watch the England game<\/a>\u2026.<\/p>\n

Then I have next week off, as Bumble has given every employee next week off as a thanks for working so hard.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m off to the Lake District \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ryan Murton (@ryan_murton) June 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

It\u2019s been a particularly busy year for Bumble. The company made its debut on the Nasdaq in February, an IPO that propelled the company\u2019s founder into her spot as the world\u2019s youngest female billionaire at 31 years old.<\/p>\n

Wolfe Herd, the founder, made headlines at the time by carrying\u00a0her young son\u00a0on the Nasdaq trading floor on the day her company went public. <\/p>\n

The company\u2019s continued to see strong growth since its IPO. The number of paid users across Bumble and Badoo, an international dating app that Bumble also owns, rose 30 percent in the first quarter, compared with the same period a year prior,\u00a0the company said last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Bumble\u2019s growth has risen since the company went public in February.<\/figcaption>
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The company\u2019s decision to give its workers the week off comes as companies across industries grapple with how to retain talent in an economy that, for the moment, has given many employees the upper hand in the job market, with more job openings than there are workers to fill them.\n <\/p><\/div>\n