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Grindr Loses Almost Half Its Staff on 2-Day RTO Requirement [Bloomberg] (archive.ph)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/7714318

Grindr Inc. has lost about 45% of its staff as it enforces a strict return-to-office policy that was introduced after a majority of employees announced a plan to unionize.

About 80 of the 178 employees at the LGBTQ dating app company were forced to resign after the company in August mandated workers return to work in person two days a week at assigned “hub” offices or be fired, the Communications Workers of America said in a statement Wednesday.

The West Hollywood, California-based company also gave a severance package to staff who were unable to relocate, in what the CWA alleged was an attempt “to silence workers from speaking out about their working conditions,” according to a statement from the organization. The CWA filed a new labor complaint against the company on Wednesday, the second such complaint in about a month.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Planned layoffs

[–] [email protected] 57 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Union busting, even. RTO that forced layoffs was only announced after they voted to unionize.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Conspiracy theory: employers are bringing people in the office in order to impede the growing activity towards unionization. 🥲

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

They hired a law firm specializing in union busting to come up with this plan, shortly after a vote to unionize. So if it's a "conspiracy" it's a blatantly obvious one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

How does a) pissing off your employees b) making sure they talk to each other in person impeding unionization?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I'd imagine keeping them all under constant supervision within eyesight helps quite a bit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Pissing off your employees = get them to quit on their own so you have no fault so you don't have to pay unemployment

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

They had already voted to unionize. This plan is a pretext to get rid of the folks who voted for the union.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

It also wasn't a return to an office they used to go to. They declared "hub cities" based on job function and people were given 2 weeks to move to those cities.