Grindr 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 resigned after the company in August mandated that 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-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.

  • @BonesOfTheMoon
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    101 year ago

    You would think an LGBTQ app would be run by chill people who would be fine with their staff being happy.

    • geosocoOP
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      51 year ago

      I think it used to be when it was founded, but it’s been bought and sold a bunch since then so the priorities likely became money over chill.