Grindr Loses Almost Half Its Staff on 2-Day RTO Requirement

About 80 of 178 employees resigned as remote work restricted

CEO says firm is smaller than ideal but positive for margins

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.

Omg some reason I just thought about grinder and my coworker grinds his coffee beans in his fancy French press. It makes a loud noise when he grinds.

This whole RTO push is just stupid. It is a way for CEOs to cut workforce.

Is Grindr going to suck even more now?

Why resign? No severance at all for layoffs?

R1 French press doesn't have that function. And what kind of pretentious clown would bring coffee beans to work.

RTO was a tactic to shed workers ahead of unionization.

But who gives a fuck? Grindr is owned by the Red Devils.

r4 They got six months of severance pay.

R5 I know they don’t but he grinds them in some device at his cubicle. He manually churns the shit in some little portable grinder. Very funny, it’s not so much loud but weird noise. Don’t ever try to check me bitch.

R7 Damn, that's a whole down payment on a nice apartment. I'd take it in a heartbeat.

I know this was part of a strategy to avoid unionization, but lots of other companies are going heavy on RTO and it’s just ridiculous. They hired people from all over the country and are now requiring that they all report in 2 days, even though they had the person working entirely remote for 2+ years.

There are distance exceptions, but even then some people are now faced with a two hour commute they weren’t told they’d have to make when they were hired.

What a great way to lose your best employees. The slackers will have no choice but to RTO. The best employees know they can find a WFH job elsewhere.

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