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.

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.

  • const_void@lemmy.mlEnglish
    802·
    10 months ago

    It’s amazing how many of these big companies are suddenly coordinated on this return-to-office push. Do they all get together at their bunker/mansions in New Zealand to discuss these evil plans?

    • markr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      57·
      10 months ago

      Class solidarity is a big thing for the bourgeoisie, unfortunately it is nonexistent for the proletariat.

      • FlaminGoku@reddthat.comEnglish
        36·
        10 months ago

        To put it in context, it’s way easier to coordinate with 100 people than a 100M people.

    • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
      53·
      10 months ago

      Probably Davos. But seriously, all those billionaires follow the same social calendar, and that includes stuff like Davos, the Monaco GP, Warren Buffett’s party, etc, and I’m sure they all do get together to talk about stuff like that. The billionaires have class solidarity. Remember that time it came out the biggest 3 software firms had an agreement not to poach talent from each other, keeping wages artificially low?

    • BlackSpasmodic@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      101·
      10 months ago

      They’re certainly colluding to screw workers and consumers as much as possible. It benefits them to work together against the working class.

  • Hazdaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    63·
    10 months ago

    50% is a huge number. If the 50% represent some mid and higher up folks, it could really cripple a company. The worst thing they could do is give in. If the workers stand strong, no company is going to survive with half their staff getting laid off because of this.

    • meseek #2982@lemmy.caEnglish
      44·
      10 months ago

      My last company has about 45 employees. 5 of the highest skilled employees left after Covid and it absolutely knocked us on our ass.

      Make no mistake, even losing a few key people can end a company.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      If the 50% represent some mid and higher up folks, it could really cripple a company.

      I’ve yet to see a company that couldn’t lose 50% or more of its mid-to-higher level management without serious consequence. Start with people who are somehow related to current or former company members, and it’s a really great start.

      Now, a company losing more than 10% of its grunts who make the things the company sells, that’ll kill it.

  • eee@lemm.eeEnglish
    471·
    10 months ago

    It’s an excuse to union bust.

    It seems like the playbook for any company that wants to downsize now is to mandate RTO. That way, they can justify firing people with cause.

    In the past, they had to move their operations to Bumfuck, Nowhere and request that employees move, so that those who don’t move can be fired easily. RTO mandates are a godsend for such companies now. Cause to fire without cost!

  • JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.mlEnglish
    30·
    10 months ago

    Ever since we found out that Grindr has been tracking their users’ locations at all times and then selling that data to private companies, Grindr has been dead to me.

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      301·
      10 months ago

      But how else will the executives retain the value of their commercial realestate?! They have long term contracts to pay.

    • NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      10 months ago

      The science is definitely pointing to people getting sick and possibly having life long consequences. But has anyone died from post vaccination RTO?

      I mean, probably someone. But people die on their commute, and that’s never been a topic of contention. So like, more than that.