Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th
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Re: Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th
#2Apple has always been the more stringent about remote work, in terms of maintaining secrecy by keeping its workers on-premises, so this is the least surprising move.
Re: Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th
#3Do they share HR offices too!
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/02/google-tells-employees-to-re...
Re: Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th
#4Hard to see it going any other way given the massive real estate investments they have made.
Re: Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th
#5I left Apple after years of lack of any flexibility on the remote work process. They wouldn't allow transferring to any alternative office for most teams. From what I understood, VPs could protect a small minority of some of their employees if a senior leader made a case to them.
Unfortunately, this just seemed to lead to the most politically connected folks going remote and directors friends and favorite hires getting the perk.
At three trillion market cap, I guess they just realized it doesn't really matter if attrition shoots up and they'll always have enough people to fill the trenches. Lots and lots of people left around the same time.
Having left, I forgot what it was like to be able to focus on something other than Apple. Incredibly toxic atmosphere on the inside. I work at a fast-paced startup and still work on average 10/hours a week less than at Apple.
Re: Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th
#6Apple has always been the more stringent about remote work, in terms of maintaining secrecy by keeping its workers on-premises, so this is the least surprising move.
I don't work for Apple, but it seems they've managed to get this far without any leaks so I guess whatever they did regarding their WFH policy worked out for them?
I had to go into the office a few times over the pandemic to use some testing equipment, but that was 7 or 8 days in the last 2 years?
Re: Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th
#7Do they share HR offices too! https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/02/google-tells-employees-to-re...
I certainly expect the HR heads of the big tech companies know each other and talk now and then. Even if they're not colluding in some illegal way, I'd actually be a bit surprised if they weren't discussing COVID-related matters.
Re: Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th
#8Do they share HR offices too! https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/02/google-tells-employees-to-re...
Not HR, but their finance teams got together and decided what needed to be done to protect their real estate investments.
Re: Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th
#9Hard to see it going any other way given the massive real estate investments they have made.
If "real estate" were the real reason, that'd just be an example of throwing good money after bad.
Re: Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th
#10Apple has always been the more stringent about remote work, in terms of maintaining secrecy by keeping its workers on-premises, so this is the least surprising move.
I don't work for Apple, but it seems they've managed to get this far without any leaks so I guess whatever they did regarding their WFH policy worked out for them? I had to go into the office a few times over the pandemic to use some testing equipment, but that was 7 or 8 days in the last 2 years?
My friend who works at apple (hardware/wireless stuff?) has been to the office every day, except for a brief period in March-May 2020