45% of Grindr, $GRND, employees resigned after the company started enforcing a return-to-office mandate

45% of Grindr, $GRND, employees resigned after the company started enforcing a return-to-office mandate, per the LA Times.

About 80 of the 178 employees at the LGBTQ+ dating app company resigned after the company in August mandated that workers return to work in person two days a week.

“These decisions have left Grindr dangerously understaffed and raises questions about the safety, security and stability of the app for users,” Erick Cortez, a member of the organizing group, said in the statement. “It is clear Grindr wants workers to be silenced and deterred from exercising our right to organize, regardless of the expense.”

“The team will be smaller than where we were before and where we want to be,” CEO Arison said. “So that’ll obviously impact margin in a positive way in the near term. But I also think that 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 that we need to do.”