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Apple CEO Tim Cook 'Can't Wait' for Employees to Return to In-Person Work
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No, Apple kept all their employees. Even continued to pay them while not working at all for the first part of the pandemic.
Telling that he was like “people can live doing Zoom, or WebEX.... oh FaceTime, FaceTime too”. Rare they don’t put their product at the top of that list even when not fully appropriate. FaceTime was an afterthought there. I wonder if we see SIGNIFICANT changes to FaceTime this year to bring it more inline with a Zoom?
Also telling the name he didn’t drop; Teams. Dunno if this is a geographical thing but Teams seems to be the main way my clients are working in the UK?
Also telling the name he didn’t drop; Teams. Dunno if this is a geographical thing but Teams seems to be the main way my clients are working in the UK?
What old fashioned thinking from Tim Cook this time.
Me and me team have never been so productive in 18 years working for the first time on big projects with people from other departments all because it is digital, people have time and actually show up and feel included in the conversations outside their team bubble.
No more 2.5 hour each day wasted on commute (which I now work extra), feeling total **** by the end of the week because of sleep shortage, barley seeing my partner or overeating because of extra stress and irregular hours.
The past year has been horrible for many things but has been the best of my career productive wise and my work/life balance and stress levels. If our CEO want us to go back to old habits (which I doubt) I will gladly go to my old behavior as well and waste hours of paid work with Netflix commute, and useless conversations on site.
Me and me team have never been so productive in 18 years working for the first time on big projects with people from other departments all because it is digital, people have time and actually show up and feel included in the conversations outside their team bubble.
No more 2.5 hour each day wasted on commute (which I now work extra), feeling total **** by the end of the week because of sleep shortage, barley seeing my partner or overeating because of extra stress and irregular hours.
The past year has been horrible for many things but has been the best of my career productive wise and my work/life balance and stress levels. If our CEO want us to go back to old habits (which I doubt) I will gladly go to my old behavior as well and waste hours of paid work with Netflix commute, and useless conversations on site.
I doubt they will ever have any product that will satisfy you.
Wonder where he says that he’s meeting 20000 people at the same time in the article.
My friend who works for Apple is currently working remotely from Hawaii.
I bet they would want to stay there instead of working "in-person"
I bet they would want to stay there instead of working "in-person"
I don't know about that. An office building is running its climate control constantly, all day long, non-stop. If its hot outside the AC is running all day long, if its cold the heat is running all day long. I'm sitting at my house now, its nice outside, what do I do? Open the window. Can't do that in majority of office buildings. Even if you could though, climate control is still running. My AC and heat do not run all day long, I can get up and adjust it. I tend to keep the house colder in the winter and warmer in the summer so that means my heat and air are barely running at all. I seriously doubt the homes running their centralized climate control systems are using more energy than the buildings that would run their systems 12+ hours a day non-stop.
It might be a wash. Less electricity for the buildings, but more for the houses, but just going off my own electric bill its not any higher since I've been working from home compared to working in the office. But what I am using less of is gas and wear and tear on my cars. I'm saving time not sitting in traffic burning gas and polluting. Able to spend more time with my kids since I'm not in the car for 2 hours a day commuting.
Cook wants his employees back because he is paying for the buildings, he needs them used otherwise its a waste of money, but at the expense of what the employees really want. I don't ever want to go back into an office. Its gotten to be too expensive to go to work.
Funny how after a while working in an office is seen as slavery by some. How dare they! Guess that’s easy to fix from the slave’s perspective then.
well, i used to keep my heat off from the time i went to bed to the the i came home from work which was half a day. now it's running all day long. i'm also running more electricity i didn't before because i wasn't here. i'm also washing more dishes and cooking more meals because i don't go out to lunch. cooking for one is less efficient than cooking for a lot of people. i'm also walking significantly less because i literally go nowhere, some days i never even get off my back. i know i should exercise but my activity has been linked to things i had to do like walk to work. i used to walk to work so my commute carbon footprint was 0. so i'm definitely using up more resources than before. the time i save on commuting i'm wasting on cooking and washing more dishes and generally keeping the house clean because it gets messy and dirty throughout they day. my sofa is getting wear and tare. my house feels dirty all the time because again, i'm eating lunch here and cooking it and i don't have time to clean it during work so it sits there till i'm off and then i have to cook again.
there is also the feeling that i live in an office. if my partner is in a meeting, i am too in a meeting and vice versa. so after 1 year of this, i feel more like i live at work than i feel like i work at home.
like i can understand people that had +20 min commutes. but a lot of us don't.
it's also no more efficient for actual work, but i'm a designer and work in a collaborative field. getting a meeting started is difficult because everyone seems to be in a meeting all the time now and just starting one wastes time.
like i need to go over a design with 3 people. back in the office, i would just walk up to them and be like "looks at this *hit" and they be like i like it or i hate it.
now i have to be like "can we go over this", and they'll be like "let me check if so and so is available" so then they'll be like "how about in 10 minutes". 10 minutes later we finally connect except so and so is not picking up so we ping them "hey so and so, are you at your computer we are meeting right now". so then we wait 5 more minutes and finally we are all there. these have been the interactions every day not just in house but with client meetings and they waste so much time.
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So basically you want to stay at home so you can fart more? Got it! 🤣
Obviously depending on your job an office might be worse. But on the flip side I hear people where I work actually are working MORE.....a LOT MORE because they're home.
The question begs to be asked, are we working from home or living at work?
If there were issues with being overworked or stuck at the office too long, that goes far beyond taking a pandemic to allowing WFH so you feel a better balance.
If anything, whether you are home or at an office, this should be sort of an opportunity for just about everyone in corporate America to hit the reset button and re-evaluate work/life balance. And no that doesn't mean adding pinball and free snacks to the office. Nor does it mean having to be digitally available all hours of the day because of work from home.
Um, no. Coldest since 1899. One hiccup doesn’t detract from the fact Texas is better.
Fk panera. I like to be surrounded by people especially the opposite sex because they like me.
Hiccups don’t happen once. The jet stream is disrupted by climate change and is moving south on a more regular basis.
Well I work as an electrical engineer so basically almost everyone I work with is a dude. So if I want to be around beautiful woman I need to go somewhere else.
You reply is "People..." is dangerously close to "Saturday in the Park" (Chicago).
Being around crazy people 40+ hours a week is not all it is cracked up to be.