Bumble has lost a third of its Texas workforce in the months since the state passed the controversial abortion SB 8 (Senate Bill 8), also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act, over a year ago. This new data point was shared by Bumble’s Interim General Counsel, Elizabeth Monteleone, speaking on a panel this afternoon at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. The panel focused on the “healthcare crisis in Post-Roe America” and featured women who had both sued and spoken out about the need to have doctors, not politicians, involved in their healthcare decisions.
The article is poorly written. Bumble lost a third of its “Texas based workforce” is technically true. That said, most of those employees didn’t leave the company, they just left the state. Mentioned in the article is how Bumble is now a “remote work first” company. The way the article is written it makes it sound like a third of Texas staff quit in a year, which isn’t what was said in the panel. Add to that the last paragraph of the article which notes that the company has since had to layoff 350 employees due to slowing demand for dating apps amongst younger people but fails to mention that 350 is a third of the company, and the whole message becomes muddy and suspect.
In a single article, two key facts are misrepresented.