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Bumble has closed their offices for a week to give 'burnt-out' staff a break

Bumble’s 700 strong workforce around the world, have been told to switch off and focus on themselves in a move commandeered by founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd. The dating app has temporarily closed all of its offices this week to mitigate workplace stress.

“We wanted to give our teams around the world and opportunity to shut off and focus on themselves” - Bumble

Bumble’s Head of Editorial Content Clare O’Connor revealed on Twitter that founder Whitney Wolfe Herd had made the move "having correctly intuited our collective burnout".

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In a statement Bumble explained, “Our global team has had a very challenging time during the pandemic…. As vaccination rates have increased and restriction have begun to ease, we wanted to give our teams around the world and opportunity to shut off and focus on themselves for a week”

Bumble has had a busy year, with a stock market debut led by Wolfe Herd, and rapid growth in users of the “women first” dating app during the pandemic. The number of paid users across Bumble and Badoo, which Bumble also owns, spiked by 30% in the three months leading to 31 March, compared with the same period in 2020.