Reddit asked its remote developers to move to San Francisco or they will be fired

Reddit has big plans for expanding its platform towards a “news distribution platform” ... which, unexpectedly, places restrictions on where workers should live. The other day Reddit delivered an ultimatum to his remote workers: either they move to San Francisco (where Reddit has an office), or they will be fired. The founder of Basecamp, David Heinemeier Hansson, posted a change in his policy regarding remote workers.

Guess @ reddit 's "San Fran" is approaching to hire more devs. Small pond, big trawler.— DHH (@dhh) October 1, 2014

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The news appeared immediately the next day as Reddit announced it received $ 50 million in investments. Yishan Wong (Reddit CEO) convinced loyal Reddit users yesterday that the new investment will not bring any negative changes on the site and will not make Reddit worry less about the community.

Wong confirmed on Twitter about a change in employee policy, which, he said, was made regardless of the investment received. “Our intention was to gather the whole team in one place in order to get 100% teamwork. Our goal is to save each member of the team "- wrote Wong.

@dhh Our goal is to retain 100% of the team.– Yishan Wong (@yishan) October 1, 2014

Remote workers must move to San Francisco before the end of the year, for which the company will provide the appropriate means. However, those who choose not to move will receive severance pay.

Stephane Kasriel, Vice President of Services and Engineering (Senior Vice President of Product and Engineering), has already published his opinion in which he stated that Elance-oDesk would be happy to hire Reddit employees who were dismissed.
www.odesk.com/blog/2014/10/dear-reddit-employees-desire-move-lets-talk

UPD:
CEO Yishan Wong's answer on the closure of Reddit offices in Salt Lake City and New York.
www.quora.com/Is-Reddit-closing-their-NYC-and-Salt-Lake-City-offices