Apple Employees Are Heading Back to the Office

The company is reportedly trying to bring workers back to its Silicon Valley offices three days a week starting September 5.

By Gabrielle Bienasz | Aug 16, 2022
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Apple is bringing its workers back to the valley.

The tech giant has asked workers to come back to the office a minimum of three days a week, .

Apple announced to employees Monday it wanted workers back in the office starting September 5, 2022. The schedule would be Tuesday, Thursday, and a third day that each team could pick, Bloomberg added.

The policy would start with Silicon Valley-area workers and then spread to other offices.

The company has tried to do this before but has been stymied by the coronavirus — Apple ended up delaying return to office plans several times including , , and .

So far, Apple has taken a slightly stricter approach to in-person work than other tech giants. Twitter still allows people to work anywhere, even with the Elon Musk acquisition drama, , as does .

Kastle Systems, which tracks office occupancy through swipe-ins and calculates a weekly average for 10 large cities in the U.S., puts office capacity this week at 43.6%, which is slightly down amid “vacation season,” .

Apple also has other personnel issues floating around: An Apple employee, Paris Campbell, said she was threatened with being fired for posting a TikTok giving security tips where she identified herself as an Apple employee, .

The company did not respond immediately to Âé¶¹Éç’s request for comment.

Apple is bringing its workers back to the valley.

The tech giant has asked workers to come back to the office a minimum of three days a week, .

Apple announced to employees Monday it wanted workers back in the office starting September 5, 2022. The schedule would be Tuesday, Thursday, and a third day that each team could pick, Bloomberg added.

The policy would start with Silicon Valley-area workers and then spread to other offices.

The company has tried to do this before but has been stymied by the coronavirus — Apple ended up delaying return to office plans several times including , , and .

So far, Apple has taken a slightly stricter approach to in-person work than other tech giants. Twitter still allows people to work anywhere, even with the Elon Musk acquisition drama, , as does .

Kastle Systems, which tracks office occupancy through swipe-ins and calculates a weekly average for 10 large cities in the U.S., puts office capacity this week at 43.6%, which is slightly down amid “vacation season,” .

Apple also has other personnel issues floating around: An Apple employee, Paris Campbell, said she was threatened with being fired for posting a TikTok giving security tips where she identified herself as an Apple employee, .

The company did not respond immediately to Âé¶¹Éç’s request for comment.

Gabrielle Bienasz is a staff writer at Âé¶¹Éç. She previously worked at Insider and Inc.... Read more
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