Amazon and Apple are watching you. Apple has threatened to take action against staff who aren't coming into the office at least three days a week. "Apple is tracking employee attendance (via badge records) and will give employees escalating warnings if they don't come in 3x per week. "At Apple, some orgs are saying failure to comply could result in termination, but that doesn't appear to be a company-wide policy." Last summer, Apple required all corporate employees to work from the office on three selected days from September 5, including Tuesday, Thursday, and a third regular day selected by team leaders. A group of employees, called "Apple Together," pushed back against the company's plans at the time and shared a petition on Twitter, arguing that staff had showed over the past two years they could do "exceptional work" from home. The company's former machine learning director, Ian Goodfellow, blamed the policy for his decision to leave Apple in May last year.
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No. Humans are born. Some humans lack intelligence :)
Techies create technology to enable 1984 scenario. Techies ignore warnings. Techies then complain when 1984 scenario becomes reality. Boo hoo, poor techies!
It's really simple. No one wants:
- to sit in a car/bus for 40 days/year commuting
- viruses
- cheap office furniture that isn't ergonomic
- disgusting bathrooms
- interruptions
- unhealthy expensive food
Same work can be done better from home. Office is so dark ages. Lots of remote jobs people!
I dont understand this resistance against RTO. That said, the director in my organization said they can let people still wiork remotely. Only problem is, iI would expect a badge tracking Cloudwatch metric to be considered in the next layoff cycle or even worse when sending people to PIP.