Bumble, the 700-person global dating-app company founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd, recently came up with a creative solution to pandemic-related employee burnout. It let everyone unplug--all at once.
"Our teams were expressing Zoom fatigue, as well as actual burnout," said Tariq Shaukat, Bumble's president. The company had put in place measures to help employees concentrate, including "Focus Fridays," one workday a month with no meetings, no planning emails, and no Slack messages. Employees loved them, spurring the company's leaders to discuss how to further the stress-reduction effort.
Initially, they considered allocating extra days off but realized that wasn't the issue. Even on their days off, employees weren't completely disconnecting.
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