I guess we now know whose company couldn’t trust him to work from home, so he never experienced how good it is, and is just angry-jealous. ^^^ This guy
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Apple Requiring Employees to Return to Office 3x Per Week Starting on September 5
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Try working on a team spread out across multiple timezones. My coworkers and I are gonna be on Teams calls no matter if we’re in the offices or not, so working from home means it’s easier to deal with working across the timezones (no commuting to deal with before early meetings or after late ones) and easier to collaborate.
Different t businesses have different requirements. You don’t see manufacturers, retailers working from home. If collaboration is part of your job, its usually better (maybe not ALL the time) to be face to face. I think at 3/2 split is a wonderful solution.
You forgot c) don't actually work in this kind of office environment, but think everyone should commute to work because they do.
Agreed I like the distinction. I have always done some work from home (in IT) but it was limited. During the plandemic work just never seemed to stop. Call me, text me, at any time because I had nowhere to go and nothing to do.
I personally work from home 3 days a week and go into the office 2 days. I truly like it and could never work from home permanently. I like the face to face interaction. I mean if these are the rules that apple wants to implement then these are the rules.
If employees want 100% remote, then they’ll have to find somewhere else to work that offers that, I truly don’t think apple ever said working remote was going to be permanent.
If employees want 100% remote, then they’ll have to find somewhere else to work that offers that, I truly don’t think apple ever said working remote was going to be permanent.
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I can understand why some people don't want to give up WFH but at the end of the day if you signed a contract to work from an office, that's what you're required to do. You can choose to leave if you don't want to do that but ultimately you've had an easy time of commuting costs for 2+ years and now it's over. I am a fan of WFH personally but if my job said I needed to go into an office and after 2+ years it was being enforced again then I'd have to choose...
about dam time, it should have been ages ago, ive been full time at work for ages
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The funny thing is we all paid for it.
IMHO for my company and our IT team, it has slowed everything down. Before I could walk down to an office and talk to someone face to face. Now I have to get ahold of a person. Many never turn on the camera anymore. Many people try to communicate over Teams chats or email now and it just falls apart fast. I call them to cut to the point...and they do not answer half the time because they are not working and probably are at some place.It's more complicated then simply having the ability to work at home instead of the office, always has been. A lot of jobs really are hands on in offices close to labs or other facilities. There are indeed people that have an extra room and modified their networking and power to provide a localized substitute, but it ain't the same as the number of options at work. This I can do my job from home for many is an inconvenience for engineering depts especially those involved with a project with a lot of complexity and constant revisions. So for anyone discussing this you have to look at all job roles that a company utilizes, not the ones that can easily be done at home remotely.
Yeah. Clear Apple does not know how to run their company, not cratering to those who want to stay in their PJs all day (true)
I can’t speak for everyone’s experience, but I can speak for my own as a web developer. I work Mondays and Fridays from home and drive in Tuesday through Thursday, and most of my most productive days have been at home, maybe because I live alone, don't have pets, etc. — so there are absolutely no distractions, aside from the occasional Slack message. Very rarely are those of such priority that I can't wait to reply until I get to a stopping point.
Granted, I'm consistently productive, so my employer trusts me, which is unfortunately a radical concept for some.
Ive been mostly WFH this year and delivered a whole project from start to finish from home. Absolutely no impact on productivity or collaboration thanks fo O365. In fact I think it's been better. I am more relaxed and feel like I am doing my best work. Being a tech company it seems so retrograde that Apple think you have to be in person to collaborate and work as a team. It's so out of date!
Makes sense. They didn't build Apple Park for $5B so it would a climate controlled warehouse for Apple inventory.
If they don't want to come in, they'll eventually be out of work.
WSJ News Exclusive | Apple’s China Engineers Keep Products Flowing as Covid Shuts Out U.S. Staff
With most U.S.-based Apple engineers shut out of China, the tech giant is passing on more authority to local workers to ensure products made in the country come out on time.www.wsj.com
Maybe because they get paid 35% of the sales tax on any of their products sold in California for them to employ people in California, specifically Cupertino. It was originally 50%. And they have the same deal in place in North Carolina, valued at 850 million dollars over 40 years in NC alone. And they get a rebate of 65% of taxes paid in Texas for employing people in Austin. So why do they want people in the office?
Is it going to be 3 whole days of working or just show up and catch
I think the 3 days in the office are 3 full-time days.
GET TO WORK, BACK IN THE OFFICE. Not for 3 days, FULL TIME. Don’t like it? Leave.
You seem very mad about people working from home… why?
