Grindr loses nearly half of its 178 staff after workers were mandated to work in person in the office two days a week
https:// www.dailymail.co.uk /news/article-12493249/Grindr-loses-nearly-HALF-178-staff-workers-mandated-work-person-office.html Grindr loses nearly half of its 178 staff after workers were mandated to work in person in the office two days a week
The LGBTQ dating app company Grindr forced 45 per cent of employees to resign when they refused to work in-person.
Key point not in the article headline but in the article itself: they unionized 2 weeks earlier.
191Oooh spicy lawsuit time!
22These rttw mandates are stealth layoffs
20The thing these brilliant people making these decisions don’t realize is that they are gonna lose the people they don’t want to lose. People who can find other jobs because they’re valuable people can easily find jobs; people who can’t find jobs will do more to stay.
12I mean they are but it's an extremely cushy layoff and if you're out in a lower COL area your finances can stretch a bit more. Hell if I was one of those workers, I'd take it. Fuck going back to an office if they want to pay me to sleep in for half a year.
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wtf when half the workers are willing to just walk, why isn't the union stepping in?
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Most of these mandated return to office policies are implemented to get people to leave the company without getting bad press for layoffs. Seems like it worked for this one.
75That’s a “quiet layoff” usually, unless an employee tells the press.
35Daily Mail = Automatic downvote
32Daily Mail hate = automatic upvote 👍
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Kinda surprised it was only 178 ppl working for the app.
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5The quality of their software fucking sucks though
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That seems like a lot to me considering the app could be put together by just a few people.
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How the FUCK did they employ that many people??
14Ads don't create themselves...
3I work for an app and there's lots of roles to fill and things to do.
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"see, Grindr is back in the office two days a week" -some CEO
8Good, let this be an example.
7The Onion
"Grinder loses nearly half its staff... Changes name to Grdr"
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