Comment on Grindr loses nearly half its staff to strict return-to-work rule

• krayj@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Exactly right - this is a thinly veiled excuse for a planned large scale workforce reduction sidestepping some of the normal repercussions.

  What I find most interesting here is that WFH is essentially a benefit (a big one) at this point, and they just eliminated a huge benefit. That usually has the effect of causing some of your greatest talent to walk - and leaving behind those people who either don’t care about the benefit (there may be some, but I think this number is small) or don’t immediately have the hireability to resign and go for greener pastures.

  The tradeoff for grindr is that it’ll make them temporarily look better on paper, but the loss of talent will probably hurt them in the long run. If there’s one thing that seems to be true of modern capitalism, it’s that companies are more than willing to fuck their futures over some perceived short term gains.

  Grindr isn’t the only company doing this. I’ll be interested to see how this works out for all the employers using this same tactic.

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  • _number8_@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    how did we get to the point where a gay hookup app is doing evil corporate schemes and attrition

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    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ll give you a hint, the first three letters of the answer are MBA.

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      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        My Butt Aches?

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    • Pseu@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because once the firm is big enough where the decision-maker doesn't personally know the people they're laying off, it almost immediately turns into this. The severance pay and unemployment of 80 software developers is millions of dollars, enough for even people who are normal and nice to the people they know to look the other way and say it was for the good of the company.

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    • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How did we get to a point where people online claim a company is evil?

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      • krayj@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How did we get to a point where people started becoming corporate anti-employee apologists?

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      • SoleInvictus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I usually preach that there are no stupid questions, but you just proved me wrong.

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      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “online”? People have been calling, and rightfully so, many companies for a very long time.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Let me guess- corporations are people.

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• _number8_@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  RTO itself isn’t negative PR?

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  • reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Depends on your audience. Potential employees will hate RTO and fear bad financial news, customers likely won’t care about either, shareholders don’t really care about RTO but will jump ship with bad financial news

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  • Dashi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Less negative than ‘Grindr lays off half its staff due to economic troubles’

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• xantoxis@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Strange that they think this isn’t a negative PR hit, then.

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