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

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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  • (Score: 2) by legont on Wednesday July 21 2021, @12:29AM

    by legont (4179) on Wednesday July 21 2021, @12:29AM (#1158530)

    The problem is different. Look, an engineer is supposed to be able to dwell where he works. Suppose a fresh graduate accepts a position in NYC. He is supposed to be able to buy a two bedroom apartment next to his office right away. In a few years once he gets a wife and a child he should be able to afford a suburban house *in addition" to the apartment and hired help.
    They don't pay him enough? He is not an engineer, but a sucker. Lumpen proletariat. So, working from home is just the first step to working in reasonable environment for a reasonable salary.

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