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Apple Still Planning Return to In-Person Work in September, Despite Employee Complaints
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I wonder when all these tech companies are cool with all thier employees working at home and not coming into the office, will eventually learn they can save even more money and will outsource the jobs to third world countries for even cheaper employees.
I totally see high paying tech jobs a temporary thing, in about 10 years these will be gone for most Americans and Western Europe. It will be cheaper programmers and tech managers in other countries and eventually A.I. will take over and do these jobs better and faster, but that's a ways off still.
I totally see high paying tech jobs a temporary thing, in about 10 years these will be gone for most Americans and Western Europe. It will be cheaper programmers and tech managers in other countries and eventually A.I. will take over and do these jobs better and faster, but that's a ways off still.
Yeah, at an Apple Store. I don’t really know what you mean but I’m assuming an Apple Store. Because Apple’s HQ is full.
Yes, but the iPad users who bought M1 iPads, do not necessarily need Mac OS to be happy. They need something that will enable iPad OS use the power of the processor. Heck you don’t even have to buy an M1. Even the processing power of my 2017 10.5 inch iPad Pro is yet to be fully utilized, but Apple has kept pushing its processor way too much without much software updates. And this year went too far with the marketting of the M1 iPads, and it can’t do anything more than my 4 year old iPad. I don’t want Mac OS too. But I feel Apple missed a deadline for some huge iPad release this year(probably due to work from home). There is so much that can be done with the processing power than running Mac OS.
Oh some don't even see (or want to see it), we already lost LOTS of jobs to India and such, outsurcing was a thing when it was not "easy" to do, with smarworking things became very easy.
I am sure Tim knows exactly what he is doing.
I was working for HP back in the days, they outsurced from HP Dublin to a small company in Milan, and then to India....
I don’t get it. What is Tim doing. Because the only thing I see him doing is running Apple professionally and currently.
And the other little bit. There was still COVID-19 in September. And that was the beginning of the holiday surge. Phizer had just completed the study but it took them a while to get approved.
I'm sure the very talented people are eager to go back to work.
People know there’s still COVID. It’s not fully gone yet. But they can still go in while wearing a mask and being vaccinated.
What makes you think that working in an office space equates to talent?
Ah, I see. A company compromising with two days remote is not good enough, you want MORE. Talk about entitlement!
No ****, having to be in the office part-time removes one of the biggest benefits of working remotely: not having to live in one of the most expensive areas on earth. You can fly in once a month or once a quarter for important meetings or events, but commuting three times a week is a different ballgame.
A lot of folks got pretty comfortable sitting on their biscuit at home. Time to suck it up and get back if that’s what the job entails. If not, there’s always some pyramid-scheme work-from-home gig they can sign up for.
I think a lot of folks weren’t buying pants during the pandemic. Shirts maybe, but not a lot of pants…
People need to suck it up and go back to work…..i went to work every day in NYC throughout the entire crisis and on public transportation. The 4 train. Every day. And I was fine. Give people an inch and they’ll take a mile.
There may be a bit of bias in this post as one size does not fit all. How big is the company in terms of employees? 2, 5, 10, 1000, 100000...all make a difference. What are the services the company offers? How big are the departments and can they work from home.
It's real easy to be myopic about what one believes to be the case as there is no birds eye view that only senior managers in the company have.
I know of people who left prime jobs in top tier companies to try and reenter the company as a consultant with a hefty lift on the salary. It didn't work out well for those people.
"I had it hard, so everyone else should too."
One of the biggest problems in America, and other places too. The fact is, not every job lends itself to remote work, others do just fine. Painting with a broad brush is foolish. Also, Apple corporate employees have a kind of "gold leaf" on their resume - they can pretty much go anywhere they choose.
These threads are interesting as it get s glimpse how people think. I am surprised to find that many seem to think the employer has dictator right. To some extent yes but unhappy employees are not good employees. I think all employers knows this.
In office for human interactions and at home for tasks demanding concentration. Best of two worlds.
In office for human interactions and at home for tasks demanding concentration. Best of two worlds.
What do you think they have been doing all this time? Slacking? Not everyone needs a manager staring over his shoulder to be motivated.
I expect apple will lose the people that shouldn’t be working there in the first place. They got too big and hired people that aren’t ‘Apple’ types of that makes sense. You want to live in a bubble go for it, but don’t push that nonsense on everyone.