Grindr Inc. has lost about 45% of its staff as it enforces a strict return-to-office policy that was introduced after a majority of employees announced a plan to unionize.

About 80 of the 178 employees at the LGBTQ dating app company were forced to resign after the company in August mandated workers return to work in person two days a week at assigned “hub” offices or be fired, the Communications Workers of America said in a statement Wednesday.

The West Hollywood, California-based company also gave a severance package to staff who were unable to relocate, in what the CWA alleged was an attempt “to silence workers from speaking out about their working conditions,” according to a statement from the organization. The CWA filed a new labor complaint against the company on Wednesday, the second such complaint in about a month.

  • Anonbal185@aussie.zone
    42·
    1 year ago

    I don’t get what’s so special about Grindr. I only knew about it because it was on the news one time and was known as the gay tinder ripoff. Even down to the name.

    If the app was known by something else that doesn’t sound like a Tinder ripoff most people wouldn’t even hear about it.

    Not my type of app so I’ve never used it but I can’t think of anything that tinder couldn’t do. All tinder has to do is to have a new column in the database

    All the other apps need to do is to check if the person’s gender== their preferred gender then that person is gay. If gay show people of same gender otherwise show opposite gender. Any app can do this.

    I hope they lose alot of revenue for forcing people back into the office.

    • Blake [he/him]
      11·
      1 year ago

      Hey, I’m a gay guy and I’ve used grindr in the past - it’s absolutely nothing like Tinder, beyond the concept of connecting with people over the internet for some kind of relationship.

      Tinder has the whole swipe left, swipe right thing going on, and all that sort of stuff. Grindr is way more straight forward, just a screen with a bunch of profile pictures of online LGBTQ+ guys near you.

      It’s also much less about dating, Grindr is generally much more social, I know loads of guys who just chitchat on there with other guys, without any expectation of a relationship or sex.

      As for other apps - they all do it, I don’t know of a single mainstream “””dating””” app that doesn’t let you choose your own gender and your preferred gender separately. But there’s like a thousand dating apps, and compared to the number of singles in a given area, when you’re gay you have a lot less people to work with. Imagine if 98% of the single women in your region all paired up and got into a relationship together leaving only 2% of them - and then if you flirt with the wrong one, she gets really offended and might attack you - that’s kind of like what it’s like being a gay guy trying to date. So yeah, it’s helpful to have a de-facto place to find people who are also men who are into men.