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Grindr has issued a return-to-office policy requiring US staff to relocate to other cities, just two weeks after its workers announced they were unionizing

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https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjv3gm/grindr-tells-unionizing-workers-move-across-the-country-or-be-fired

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Grindr Tells Unionizing Workers: Move Across The Country or Be Fired
Published
Aug 8 2023

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  1. spit-evil-olive-tips
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    archive link two weeks to decide, then six weeks to move (potentially cross-country) or two weeks before you're gone. firing-by-forcing-them-to-quit like this is called constructive dismissal it...

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    The certification form, sent to workers on Monday night and obtained by Motherboard, states that the policy requires workers to either move within 50 miles of their newly designated office or lose their jobs.

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    The form asked workers to declare whether they lived within 50 miles of their designated office, and if not, whether they were willing to move by October 3. If workers were not willing to relocate to their new offices—Chicago for the engineering team, Alto said, and Los Angeles or the San Francisco Bay Area for the product and design teams—their jobs would end on August 31.

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    Any team member who does not complete and return this form by August 17, 2023 will be considered not to have agreed to comply with Grindr’s hybrid work policy and RTO plan

    two weeks to decide, then six weeks to move (potentially cross-country) or two weeks before you're gone.

    firing-by-forcing-them-to-quit like this is called constructive dismissal

    it would be an incredibly shitty move, even if the timing was a total coincidence and had nothing to do with the unionization.

    23 votes
  2. crowsby
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    The most damning part of it is that they're demanding employees relocate across the country, within a month at their own expense, to an office which doesn't yet even exist:

    The most damning part of it is that they're demanding employees relocate across the country, within a month at their own expense, to an office which doesn't yet even exist:

    “It's not even a well-drawn-out plan,” said McGee, who mainly works out of their home in New York City. “They have not told us where the office in the Bay Area is going to be. If this was indeed planned for months as they're claiming, why isn't there a lease? They’ve sublet a WeWork space that I would wager, given the WeWork space that we have in New York, is not big enough for the entire product design team that they've told to move to California. So where do they expect us to be working?”

    20 votes
  3. Hamartia
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    This is a staggering lack of self awareness for a business that serves a community from which people are still alive (though maybe not quite active on the app) that needed collective action just...

    This is a staggering lack of self awareness for a business that serves a community from which people are still alive (though maybe not quite active on the app) that needed collective action just to get basic human rights.

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