Hiring costs are not 0. I hope people telling to fire those highly skilled workers are not really advising the companies to do so.
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Apple Employees Expected to Return to Offices in February
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Hiring costs are not 0. I hope people telling to fire those highly skilled workers are not really advising the companies to do so.
Sorry, but we can't keep living like this forever. The vaccines are out. If you don't want to get it, fine. But you have to live with the consequences of that (including potential death, potential joblessness, etc.).
If the vaccines weren't the finish line, then what exactly is to stop us from continuing restrictions forever? Because covid isn't going away (which means China's zero covid policy is complete nonsense).
If the vaccines weren't the finish line, then what exactly is to stop us from continuing restrictions forever? Because covid isn't going away (which means China's zero covid policy is complete nonsense).
In NYC at least, the local economy depends upon office workers having lunch and going to dinner/happy hour/shopping after work -- and I have a feeling that's the way it is in a lot of places. This may be the ultimate source of the desire to bring people back in *some* cases. It's sad, since this is an opportunity to greatly reduce carbon emissions and the stress of commuting.
I’m sure they their non brain dead competitors will say “Thanks!” and proceed to run circles around them.
So, what’s the difference between someone doing the bare minimum while watching cat videos on their phone and skateboarding? An unmotivated worker isn’t going to magically produce great results if they’re forced to sit in front of a computer at the office rather than their bedroom.
Maybe some companies believe it’s their right to have a company culture the way they want. Let the employees go who don’t want to go along with the program and reward the ones that do.
Only a moron would want to poach Apple's software team!!! They are clearly incompetent. "It just works" was abandoned years ago, largely due to the decline in software quality control.
The quality of the software team has been in decline for many years before covid began. And let's be real, the quality of the hardware team has had a massive jump forward in this last year or two. The new Macs are an absolute delight compared to the 2016-2020 disaster.
Yes! Flexibility is king. Personally, I prefer a mix of office and home. 100% office is a commuting drag. 100% home is too isolating. To be able to choose when to come in and when to work at home would be perfect.
Get the lazy and cowardly back in the office. About damn time.
You may very well be right about that, I hope you are not…
LOL, it’s not exactly like working in a sweat shop at the Apple Campus, unless you’re sitting inside the sauna at the fitness center.
My company spent close to a million dollar remodel to open plan spaces just prior to pandemic. They had us working from home during the pandemic and some of us are in offices one or two days a week as needed but working from home when we don't have to meet with someone or do some kind of face-to-face interaction. The flexibility is great. In the case of superfluous office space they have been jettisoning off entire floors where people could be consolidated and it's worked well to do that.
Apple’s software quality the last 2 years tells me all I need to know about whether in person collaboration is valuable. Return to office can’t happen soon enough for Apple.
Force yourself to stop responding. I’ve been in a work from home role for around 13 years now and this is a must.
You work to live, not that other way around.
Heck, if they have gym at the campus where I can weight train post a long day at the desk, I’m sold! 😁
There is much to be said from working in the office, but it does not mean a better product all by itself. Companies that embrace the work from home model can make things work just fine.
Apple has to, as has been said here deal with people leaving for remote jobs. You adapt or die trying to force a model that people don’t want.
I suspect the bolded is not accurate and highly variable based on many configurations. A lot of companies will also find working remote, you don’t have establish relationships with fellow employees, the rapport that people like to create in the workplace. Confinement at home, is a very monotonous and mundane environment. And some people like that ‘mental break
where they’re not at home all the time, so it’s not necessarily accurate to say that companies ‘can make it work just fine’, when if anything, it’s just the opposite.
And I’d also wager, it depends on the type of work that someone is attempting to accomplish at home, and the stress load that follows.
Each of the points you mentioned here are cases where a company that embraces work from home can make a success of it. Work from home does not mean you never leave, never associate with colleagues, etc, it simply means the mandatory working in the office mentality is not the only method that is allowed.
I’ve done it for 13 years and work in a technical role, it takes work but the product I produce is far better than that done in the office.
Tim Apple being Viktor and that old vamp with the whip saying "Get Back to Work, Get Back, to wooork"
Yeah it is not going to improve anything. It will make it worse.
The realty is among the FAANGS apple is already bottom tear. They pay less than the others and they work you pretty hard. That combination hurts your talent pool a lot. Now they are demanding back to office they are going to lose some more.