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Grindr’s Return-to-Office Ultimatum Has Gutted a Uniquely Queer Space in Tech (www.wired.com)

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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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[-] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 84 points 1 year ago

I read this as grindr loses 50% of its engineering staff because of dumb management decisions. Honestly the RTO was probably just a cop out to their dwindling user base.

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

The RTO sounds like it was pure union busting.

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