Apple has sent out a letter to employees, in which it said: from now on, everyone working remotely must visit the office at least three days a week. Not everyone liked the decision: some workers refused and demanded to allow them to determine in what format to work. In their case, they hinted that returning to offices could be bad for the environment. Some people decided to quit altogether.
According to The Verge, 80 employees of the corporation made a letter to the head of Apple Tim Cook demanding to revise the new rules. The appeal was sent out on June 4 at the end of the working day. There are about 2800 people in the Slack messenger chat called “Supporters of remote work”, where the letter was created.
“Many of us feel that we now have to choose: either family and well-being, or the opportunity to do our job and be part of Apple,” the authors of the letter complained.
They also considered it offensive and untrue that Cook said that many employees of the corporation want to see colleagues in person in the office. As the authors of the appeal stated, among them there are those who have “directly opposite desires.”
“Many of us already feel connected to our colleagues – and better than ever. We look forward to the opportunity to work as we do now, without the daily need to return to the office, “- said the employees.
At the end of their appeal, the workers put forward a number of demands. Among other things, they asked Apple for information on how returning to the offices would affect the environment.
In early June, Tim Cook wrote to employees of the corporation that in the year of the pandemic, the company “lacked something significant – each other.” Most of them received an offer to work from the office three days a week – on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.
According to The Verge, Apple did not encourage employees to work from home until 2020. Cook told employees in December that they could return to the office in June. The publication called the position of the corporation “still conservative in comparison with other technology giants.” Unlike Apple, the management of social networks Facebook and Twitter allowed their subordinates to work remotely even after the pandemic was over.
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