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Apple Employees Threaten to Quit as Company Takes Hard Line Stance on Remote Work

posted by janrinok on Tuesday July 20 2021, @04:43PM   

upstart writes:

Apple employees threaten to quit as company takes hard line stance on remote work:

Apple employees claim the company is not budging on plans to institute a hybrid work model for corporate workers and is in some cases denying work-from-home exceptions, including one accommodation covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

In June, Apple announced a hybrid work schedule that will see employees return to the office for three days a week starting in September, a shift toward normal corporate operations after the pandemic forced a lengthy work-from-home period. Days later, participants of what is assumed to be the same remote work advocacy Slack channel cited by The Verge asked more flexibility, saying that working from home brings a number of benefits including greater diversity and inclusion in retention and hiring, tearing down previously existing communication barriers, better work life balance, better integration of existing remote / location-flexible workers, and reduced spread of pathogens.

That request was flatly denied. In a video to employees late last month, SVP of retail and people Deirdre O'Brien toed the company line on remote work policies, saying, "We believe that in-person collaboration is essential to our culture and our future. If we take a moment to reflect on our unbelievable product launches this past year, the products and the launch execution were built upon the base of years of work that we did when we were all together in-person."

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• Re:Three day work week (Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Tuesday July 20 2021, @05:49PM

  by khallow (3766) on Tuesday July 20 2021, @05:49PM (#1158339) Journal

  I don't know which book the HR and MBA people have read about this three day at the office thing. But they are all spouting the same line now like parrots. So who came up with this 3-2 split and thought that this was a fantastic idea?

  It's mentioned here [linkedin.com]:

  By the time it’s safe to return to the office, many workers will have spent a year or more working from home. And many are enjoying the extra time and flexibility. Companies may let employees work from home two or more days per week, with some opting for three days in office, two days remote and then two days off — a 3-2-2 work week, if you will — according to Ashley Whillans, a professor at Harvard Business School. Some employers may even cut down to a four-day work week altogether.

  I don't know when or where she proposed that.

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