Tech giant Apple has issued an order asking its employees to work three days a week from the office.
As Covid engulfed the world, companies asked their employees to work from home. But in recent weeks, closed offices have begun to reopen as a result of fewer COVID-19 cases in various parts of the world.
Tech giant Apple also issued an order asking its employees to work three days a week from the office. But many employees seem unhappy with Apple’s return to office policy.
According to a report, machine learning director Ian Goodfellow resigned last week after notifying his colleagues that CEO Tim Cook’s push to bring employees back into the office had ousted him. ledge,
“I firmly believe that more flexibility would be the best policy for my team,” he was quoted as saying by the report.
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According to his LinkedIn page, Mr Goodfellow had been working with Apple since 2019. His profile further stated that he is “an industry leader in machine learning”.
according to this Luck, Between April 13 and April 19 this year, 652 Apple employees took part in an anonymous social network survey conducted by Blind. Although the names of the interviewees are unknown, their employment status was confirmed using their Apple corporate email address.
76 percent of Apple employees surveyed were unhappy with the company’s return to work policy, which was implemented after the COVID-19 outbreak subsided, Luck further said in the report.
Apple introduced its hybrid action plan from April 11 this year and asked corporate employees to come to the office once a week. From May 23, it will be mandatory for the employees to come to the office three days a week.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook is asking his employees to return to work, despite alleged unrest among employees.
according to this bloomberg“In the coming weeks and months, we have a chance to combine what we’ve learned about working remotely with the irreplaceable benefits of in-person collaboration,” Mr Cook added in a memo.
“It is as important as ever that we support each other as a team through this transition and as we face challenges around the world,” he added in the memo.