Grindr Loses Half Its Staff After Ending Remote Work Policies
metroweekly.comCNN, the company announced in August that all employees would be required to work in person, at least twice a week, at the company’s offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. — all of which are among most expensive cities in the nation when it comes to cost-of-living.The company gave those employees the choice of relocating to their respective teams’ newly assigned “hub” cities, or leaving the company with severance, according to the Communication Workers of America union.Approximately 80 of Grindr’s 178 workers — 45% of all employees — were forced to leave the company as of August 31, the CWA said.
The company offered a severance package for employees who declined to relocate.However, the CWA characterized the return-to-work policy as a form of retaliation in response to an attempt to unionize by company employees, and characterized the severance packages given to those who left the company as an attempt “to silence workers from speaking out about their working conditions.”“Rather than recognize the union, the company issued a new return-to-office policy requiring staff to relocate or quit,” the CWA said in a statement.
The union has filed an unfair labor practice charge against Grindr with the National Labor Relations Board.“These decisions have left Grindr dangerously understaffed and raises questions about the safety, security, and stability of the app for users,” Erick Cortez, a member of Grindr United-CWA, told the New York Post.
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