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Some Apple Employees Say Company's Culture of Secrecy Makes Working From Home Challenging
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In my experience, working from home pollutes your home with the stress from work There's no escaping it. One of the benefits of sitting behind a desk all day at the company office, staring at your screen and clicking a mouse is you get to leave the damn place at the end of the day and go home to chill out
In the Windows world the solution here is VPN into the internal network and RDP to a VMware Windows machine. This question came up last week from data scientists at my company who were complaining about how to get around working over the VPN and trying to extract large amounts of data for analysis to their local machines.
I'm not familiar with MacOS in large corporate environments but I would assume Apple has some way of doing this for it's developers.
I'm not familiar with MacOS in large corporate environments but I would assume Apple has some way of doing this for it's developers.
Working in media I can relate.
TPN is very restrictive for working from home and understandably so.
But I think this out break needs to create a culture shift in the attitudes for working remotely.
There has to be some relaxation and trust given to workers.
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TPN is very restrictive for working from home and understandably so.
But I think this out break needs to create a culture shift in the attitudes for working remotely.
There has to be some relaxation and trust given to workers.
-AE
Literally second sentence tells, that software development remotely is barely possible.
The recent “expose” of Apple (And Snowden) using contractors to listen to Siri recordings says all that needs to be said about worker trust.
but some other people might. What if you are working on a brand new feature and your flat mates see something?
Internal builds may be on a repository not accessible via VPN or only to selected people. New hardware is likely restricted to some labs in the campus. I don’t think it is a matter of not trusting employees to work from home, but fear of leaks.
A lot of people don’t work on secret stuff though so they should be able to work remotely.
Especially in the IT industry, that statement is complete nonsense - and you know it. Most managers and employers don't want you to work from home simply because they are afraid of losing direct control over you. Full stop.
This whole experience could lead to a lot of people and companies being inspired to produce better solutions for working from home.
If not from Apple, then maybe we’ll see some other companies come up with new ideas... or an individual will start a new company.
If not from Apple, then maybe we’ll see some other companies come up with new ideas... or an individual will start a new company.
If all you want to do is screen sharing, the VPN is pointless. You're already limited to a single host and a single port. The VPN becomes useful when you want to map multiple hosts and/or ports.
An SSH tunnel is enough to map a single port.
That's part of it.
(Ironically, this is a WSJ story. Guess what paper has controlling, micromanaging higher-ups?
“While you’re working from home, you should respond within just a few minutes to a Slack or Google Hangout message from your colleagues.”)
But there's benefits to being on-site beyond managers seeing what you're doing. (Which is mostly an illusion anyway. If employees want to find a way to spend 30% of the day playing Solitaire, they will.)
Being on-site allows for office grapevine, which can lead to a richer, more spontaneous work environment than a bunch of carefully curated Jira tickets allow for.
I'm a lawyer and agree with all of it, right up until the time I need to be in court, which is Tuesday :-(
What secrecy? Apple has never been more leaky since Tim Cook. Basically every new product or Announcement is well known weeks before...
Listening to Siri recordings makes sense if there is something that Siri didn't understand, and a human listener can understand it and enter it into their system, to improve future answers. Nobody knows _who_ was talking to Siri. On the other hand, you know when Siri is listening because you said "Hey Siri" (and Siri filters out voices from anyone who didn't say "Hey Siri" so nobody can listen to conversations). And I know of people who seriously believed there was a human listening and providing the answer.
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"Weeks before" instead of "months before".
Same. What is baffling is our county courts are open but the next 2 counties over are closed for 2 weeks. It makes no sense at all with the risk herding people into a courthouse.
Luckily I havent had to be in court for 2-3 years now. I would not want to go now.
Absent emergency matters (domestic violence, true emergencies, etc) the court should be closed. There is no reason to be conducting routine hearings right now with everyone in a room and touching things (tabes, chairs, bathrooms, etc).
Even in criminal court bringing inmates to the courtroom risks bring it back to hundreds or thousands in the jail. I gues they can do those by video and let the lawyer call in, but still. Its just a ton of really unnecessary risk going on here.
Like why are the airports and public transit still open! Its mid-boggling. You have people mixing from all over in one place, and bringing it from state to state, that is recipe for disaster.
I don’t think there is enough evidence just yet on what happens to the virus after an infected no longer has symptoms. Maybe it comes back as a seasonal bug?
Anyhow I think the hope is that the minimal contact will be able to spread out the dates of risk of infection such that hospitals won’t be overwhelmed. Perhaps for your county and another way to look at it, they have decided to take that chance whereas others will postpone their risk for another 2 weeks
Maybe and maybe not. I know companies already letting employees work from home, and there are benefits and issues. There are broad swaths Of companies that absolutely rely on face to face contact where working from home is a reduced efficiency band-aid. But your point is maybe companies can rethink some of how their employees jobs are structured.