After a year of working through a once-in-a-lifetime worldwide epidemic, Bumble is giving its whole team a “Paid Week Off, totally offline” vacation this week to help alleviate fatigue.
The businesswoman is now being praised for taking the week off for all of her employees. Bumble’s more than 750 worldwide workers will take a paid week off this week, according to a spokeswoman who confirmed this to ABC News via email on Tuesday.
Bumble revealed it was urging all employees to disconnect for the “completely offline” bonus week off in a tweet in late April.
According to Pew Research Center statistics, the caring issue is connected to 2.4 million women exiting the work field altogether between February 2020 and February 2021 while the epidemic raged.
Furthermore, research issued late last year by consulting firm McKinsey & Company and LeanIn.org warned that COVID-19 may undermine years of hard-won advances for women’s representation in corporate America, with one in four women considering downshifting or quitting the job. According to the research, nearly three-quarters of senior-level women who indicated they were considering leaving the workforce or working in a reduced capacity mentioned “burnout” as the primary reason.
One in five global survey respondents said their company doesn’t care about their work-life balance, according to Microsoft’s Work Trend Index, which was released earlier this year. Furthermore, 54 percent said they are “overworked,” while 39 percent said they are “exhausted.” Business executives are “out of touch with employees and need a wake-up call,” according to Microsoft research.
While many companies are facing criticism for their seeming disregard for their burned-out employees, Bumble isn’t alone in promising post-pandemic flexibility as the country recovers from the pandemic’s toll of more than 600,000 deaths.
“It reminds me how important corporate culture, as well as staff wellbeing and mental health, are to any firm,” Hanson wrote.
Hootsuite, a social media management business, said in a blog post late last month that it will give all of its employees a week off because the “pandemic reminded us how vital mental health is.”