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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.

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[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 year ago (13 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.

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