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Bumble's week off: employees suffering from burnout need more than an extra holiday

By Fehmidah Munir, Professor of Health Psychology, Loughborough University

After a busy year involving a rise in customers, a stock market debut and all the pressures that come with a global pandemic, the dating app Bumble recently announced that all staff would be given a week off work. The company’s offices closed, with all 700 employees on paid leave to deal with what one executive called “our collective burnout”.

It was widely seen as a positive gesture which…

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