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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      1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

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

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      1 year 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