Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th

Post by abledon » Fri, Mar 04, 2022, 6:05 PM UTC

tombert wrote: post #97

dnathi493 wrote: post #5

I 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 getti…

COVID made my situation worse at Apple. I worked in a satellite office (NYC), and while in the office, most folks in California were reluctant to schedule meetings later than ~2pm california time because they didn't want to keep people in the office late. When we went fully remote, suddenly it seems like any compunctions about that vanished; I would have meetings until 9pm 3 nights a week, I guess because the manager…

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 04, 2022, 6:05 PM UTC

BrianOnHN wrote: post #105

SkinTaco wrote: post #103

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I work at a company you've heard of that did something similar (their announcement was on HN) and, at least in my case, the announcements had been made internally a few weeks beforehand. It is always possible for there to be multiple plausible reasons for something, and the least generous assumptions can be frequently incorrect

It's not about current employees as much as future recruiting. PR requires internal employees. That leads me to the logic that, for most companies, PR is targeted at non-employees.

Post by nightski » Fri, Mar 04, 2022, 6:06 PM UTC

jb1991 wrote: post #44

gtirloni wrote: post #24

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> More people are dying with Covid now than were dying most of the previous two years That's surprising. Do you have a source?

That stat has been widely reported, in the U.S. at least. There are more deaths from Covid occurring currently in the U.S. on an average daily basis that at any prior time in the pandemic. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/24/health/covid-deaths-now-y... NY Times, Washington Post, and other media have similar stories.

Post by Apocryphon » Fri, Mar 04, 2022, 6:07 PM UTC

CSSer wrote: post #107

dnathi493 wrote: post #5

I 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 getti…

They seem very rooted in the past for lots of ideas, which is ironic given the image and culture they try to project. For example, I've heard at least one story of someone being asked lots of irrelevant CS questions for a front-end role when they interviewed there. He did fine, but he said he felt like the interview somehow felt fifteen years out of date, which really stuck with me.

Post by robertoandred » Fri, Mar 04, 2022, 6:08 PM UTC

WithinReason wrote: post #36

nostromo wrote: post #16

More people are dying with Covid now than were dying most of the previous two years, minus 4 peaks of various waves. I'm happy we're returning to normalcy, but it just makes me wonder "why now?" It's like the government and big business just decided overnight to declare "mission accomplished" when nothing substantial has changed. Last summer, for example, could have been the reopening, and we'd have better data and "…

> More people are dying with Covid now than were dying most of the previous two years, minus 4 peaks of various waves. There is a huge difference between "dying with COVID" and "dying from COVID".