Grindr Inc. lost approximately 45% of its staff due to the implementation of a strict return-to-duty policy that was implemented after the majority of employees announced their plan to unionise.
Nearly 80 of the LGBTQ dating app company’s 178 employees were forced to resign after the company ordered workers in August to return in person to their assigned “headquarters” offices two days a week or face termination. The Communications Workers of America (CWA) union reported in a statement Wednesday.
The company is headquartered in West Hollywood, California. also provided severance pay to non-transferable staff; C.W.A. He claimed it was an attempt to “silence workers’ speech about their working conditions,” according to a statement from the organization.
CWA filed a new labor complaint against the company on Wednesday, the second of its kind in about a month.
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“These decisions left Grindr dangerously understaffed and raised questions about security. “The stability of the app for users,” Erick Corte said in the statement.z is a member of the organization group.
“It is clear that Grindr wants to silence workers and deter us from exercising our right to organize, no matter the cost.” Grindr did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
But CEO George Arison told investors at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia + Technology conference in San Francisco this week that further staff losses are expected as a result of the retrenchment, which would be economically advantageous in the short term.
“The team will be smaller than we were before and smaller than we want to be,” Arison said. “So that will impact margin positively in the short term. But I think it also shows that you can have a lot of leverage in this business because you don’t need that big of a team to do the things we need.” to do.”
Source: Exame
