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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."
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @12:34AM (2 children)
The Agile Manifesto was written by extroverts who wandered into IT careers by mistake, and get lonely sitting there in front of the uncaring computer. So they invented pair programming and daily scrums so they can have face time with human beings every day, the way their extroverted little hearts dream of. By the gods, how I hate them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @02:36AM
I've had friends that did pair programming, they say it actually helped them become better programmers. Not something I'd be super interested in myself, but I can understand the value.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 17 2021, @02:25AM
The scrum standup can actually be a blessing there.
Which would you rather have, fifteen minutes of: "I finished ticket 249025 yesterday, today I tackle 249028, and I need Johnson in UI to get me those comps otherwise I'm twiddling my thumbs." or shouldertapping throughout the day in between email chains along with a project manager hyperventilating about the Friday 2-hour navelgazing?