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

  • Written by Fehmidah Munir, Professor of Health Psychology, Loughborough University
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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 &ldqu...