The tech giant also reinstates mask requirements for common areas, citing a rise in coronavirus cases.
The fixed three-day schedule — which many had taken issue with — was supposed to take effect next week. Instead employees will continue to follow the two-day regimen adopted as part of the company’s “Hybrid Working Pilot,” according to reporting from Bloomberg News. Apple also told workers it was reinstating mask requirements for common areas.
Many of Apple’s 165,000 employees have been working remotely throughout the coronavirus pandemic, and like other major employers, the company has repeatedly postponed and reconfigured its return-to-work plans. But chief executive Tim Cook has been vocal about the importance of in-person work and the company has taken heat from some employees for taking a more restrictive approach in the transition back.
Apple did not immediately respond to a request from The Washington Post for more details on the decision. The Cupertino, Calif.-based tech juggernaut has 29 officeto Apple executives in early May, employees alleged that the policy compelling workers back to the office was driven by “fear … of the future of work, fear of worker autonomy, fear of losing control.
“We tell all of our customers how great our products are for remote work, yet, we ourselves, cannot use them to work remotely? How can we expect our customers to take that seriously,” workers said in the letter to executives. “How can we understand what problems of remote work need solving in our products, if we don’t live it?”
Office occupancy across 10 of the country’s top business centers, including Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, hit a pandemic-era high of 43.4 percent last week, according to
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