Good News For Dating Enthusiasts: Thai Company Offers Its Employees ‘Tinder Leave’

A Thailand-based company has taken the internet by storm for offering their employees a ‘Tinder Leave’. It aims to improve their overall well-being. As per The Straits Times, a marketing firm named Whiteline Group announced this leave in August earlier this year. The company’s workers would be given paid time off to pursue romantic connections on Tinder till December 2024. “We give 6 months of free Tinder Platinum and Tinder Gold to our employees. Our employees can use Tinder leave to date with someone,” the company said.

The company believes the measure would help boost productivity as love increases happiness. It started after the company’s management overheard one of its employees claiming she was ‘too busy’ to date. This led to the staff now having the option to take days and nights off to hang out with their matches. To utilise these leaves employees will have to put in a week’s notice.

The Whiteline Group is also giving its employees six months of high-tier subscriptions that provide users with better features. The members will get added benefits such as seeing who liked their profile, matching with people across the world and sending a note with every superlike. This offer is currently available only to those employees who have passed probation and joined the company between July 9 and December 31 this year.

The Whiteline Group was founded in Bangkok and has an employee strength of around 200 as per its website.

While employees will have enough time to pursue love and dating, there are workers who do not have the luxury of even leaving their workplace. Recently, the BBC reported that the Managing Director of a company named Mineral Resources has expressed his wish to keep its staff ‘captive’. The man in question, Chris Ellison has restricted his employees from taking coffee breaks.

The company’s head office in Perth houses modern amenities such as a restaurant, a gym, a staff psychologist and other facilities but it is not to improve the well-being of its workers. On the contrary, these amenities have been provided to encourage employees to stay in the office. Mineral Resources also does not offer a work-from-home policy.