Apple workers must return to the office on September 5, but they refuse to do so. To avoid this return to face-to-face, they use the pretext that they have done “an exceptional job” from home. The company’s objective is to establish a hybrid work model, three days in person and the other two teleworking.
The Apple Together employee group, which was formed at the start of the pandemic, refuses to return to in-person work. The employees are claiming that the “uniform mandate from top management does not respect the reasons for labor flexibility.” On the other hand, the workers’ group assures that “part of the staff is happier and more productive with less traditional work arrangements.”
According to the newspaper, Financial Times, Apple Together plans to collect signatures this week before transferring the opinion of the workers to the executive. “At this time, we will not publicly release any specific names of the people involved to protect our colleagues, especially in light of the breakdown of retail unions and recent reports of allegations of retaliation by Human Resources,” they have denounced. Workers.
From the company, the executive director of Apple, Tim Cook, has assured that “the objective of the company is to preserve the collaboration in person that is so essential to our culture.”
However, the workers defend that during the pandemic the company’s market valuation has doubled from 1.4 trillion dollars in February 2020
The first try
Since June 2021, Cook has been trying to get workers back to the office on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Although between the rejection of this measure by the workers and the continuous waves of covid-19, it has had to be delayed.
“We believe Apple should encourage, not prohibit, flexible working to build a more diverse and successful company where we can feel comfortable ‘thinking different’ together,” the letter from the workers said. On the other hand, Cook maintains that “remote work is no longer acceptable.”
In general, the dilemma of returning to teleworking has opened a gap in the big technology companies. On the other hand, last year Spotify introduced a “work from anywhere” policy. . Entities such as Twitter or Airbnb have also joined this initiative, allowing their employees to work from anywhere.
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