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Dating App Bumble Is Giving Employees a Paid Week Off After 'Incredibly Challenging Time'

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Bumble is doing its part to ensure their employees remain happy and healthy.

The dating app has given its entire staff a full, paid week off to rest and recharge as COVID-19 pandemic restrictions loosen in the U.S. and more Americans become vaccinated.

Bumble's new initiative - which began Monday and extends through June 28 - was introduced as a way to help combat burnout for its 750 employees across the world.

"As vaccination rates increase and restrictions ease, we wanted to give our global teams a paid week off to rest and refresh after what's been an incredibly challenging time for everyone," a Bumble spokesperson tells PEOPLE via email.

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At the end of April, Bumble revealed they were giving vacation time to all employees after the New York Times tweeted a story about the case for a national paid vacation once the pandemic officially ended.

"We recently announced that all Bumble employees will have a paid, fully offline one-week vacation in June, so you could say we *feel this.* #APaidWeekOff," the dating app wrote in response to the tweet.

In addition to supporting employees' mental health, the dating app - which requires female users to make the first move - recently announced they were donating funds to UNICEF as India was hit with a devastating wave of COVID-19.

"The Bumble team in India and around the world stands with our community during this difficult time, as we face this devastating second wave of COVID-19," the company wrote in May.

"We're donating funds to @UNICEF to support urgent COVID relief efforts, provide medical supplies, and help spread crucial information on various safety protocols," the tweet continued. "We are in this together, and we'll continue to support our community in every way we can."

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Bumble's company-wide paid vacation comes four months after the dating app became a publicly traded company on NASDAQ.

With a Wall Street debut that Bloomberg reported saw Bumble shares soar, CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd - who has a 11.6% stake in the company - became both a billionaire and the youngest female CEO to take a major U.S. company public.

Wolfe Herd, 31, celebrated the moment with her 1-year-old son Bobby Lee "Bo" Herd II on her hip - a decision that captured the hearts of working moms around the world. As one social media user put it, she proved the "modern woman... can do it all."