Bumble shuts down for a week to give staff a break. Should you follow?

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Dating app, Bumble, has joined companies like LinkedIn and Hootsuite shutting down for a few days to give employees a proper break from work.

On today's show Natasha and Blaire talk about -

* whether it's a good idea that other companies should follow
* pandemic burnout
* how to assess productivity versus busy-work
* whether burnout is inevitable when a company is growing fast
* whether our expectations of founders should be different to our expectations of workers
* what causes burnout
* and some more sustainable ideas for getting productivity without breaking people!

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