Grindr’s Return-to-Office Ultimatum Has Gutted a Uniquely Queer Space in Tech
Grindr’s Return-to-Office Ultimatum Has Gutted a Uniquely Queer Space in Tech

Grindr’s Return-to-Office Ultimatum Has Gutted a Uniquely Queer Space in Tech

Grindr’s Return-to-Office Ultimatum Has Gutted a Uniquely Queer Space in Tech::Two weeks after staff at queer dating app Grindr unionized, bosses ordered employees back to the office. Nearly half the app’s workers refused and have been laid off.
Seems like the RTO was rushed and mishandled for some reason. I can only guess they wanted to punish the unionizers or just do a major layoff without calling it a layoff.
Article explains it:
They hired a rightwingers as CEO, and even if he changed his mind on social policy, he's still obviously a Republican on fiscal.
This is a way to get rid of highly paid people since the labor pool for tech ballooned after twitter fired everyone.
He's hoping for a short dip, then replacing everyone for cheaper salaries.
Jesus. The CEO of Grindr is a supporter of homophobes. We truly are in the worst timeline.
Yeah that seems reasonable. RTO is quite a powerful/interesting tool for these employers
The second part, I think people don't pick up on that often enough. These return to office pushes are soft layoffs. They get to do a layoff without paying severance or even unemployment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal
You’d think hiring someone fully remote then changing the terms of the job would qualify but I m only a bird lawyer.
While this is true, they also don't get to have as much control and who leaves.
Normally when you do layoffs you strategically keep the people on who were best for the company.
Maybe, but this way you have no control on who leave, which probably are the people you would like to keep since they are the most valuable people you have and being good they could find a job that accomodate their WFH request.