Employees oppose Apple's planned introduction of '2 remotes per week, 3 commute per week', and voices requesting work style reforms are expanding

Regarding the work style of '2 remotes per week, 3 work weeks' introduced by Apple in September 2021, some employees wrote to CEO Tim Cook 'I want a flexible approach that allows me to work completely remotely' Was sent.

Apple employees push back against returning to the office in internal letter --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/4/22491629/apple-employees-push-back-return-office-internal-letter-tim-cook

Comment: Apple employees are right to question Tim Cook's hybrid return-to-work strategy --9to5Mac
https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/05/re-apple-remote-work/

For Apple and others, flexibility is the vital component to the future happiness of workers | Revert to Saved: A blog about design, gaming and technology
http://reverttosaved.com/2021/06/05/for-apple-and-others-flexibility-is-the-vital-component-to-the-future-happiness-of-workers/

Apple employees bash new policy cutting work-from-home time
https://nypost.com/2021/06/06/apple-employees-bash-new-policy-cutting-work-from-home-time/

Following the outbreak of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) in 2020, Apple was deploying full remote work. However, from September 2021, it announced that it will shift to a work style of '2 remotes per week, 3 attendances per week'. To promote in-house collaboration, we have decided to require employees to work in-house three days a week, Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.

Apple urges employees to commute three days a week from September 2021 --GIGAZINE

Apple's internal remotework advocate community, which has about 2,800 people, has publicly stated that it is 'against work' in response to this decision. It is not disclosed how many people signed the letter, but at least 80 people are involved in editing the letter.

The letter in question mentions the pandemic of the new coronavirus that occurred in 2020 at the beginning. Despite the predicament of working in an unprecedented pandemic, this success was 'remote work adversity, noting that it overcame the difficulty of maintaining product and service quality and recorded record high sales. Instead of saying, 'I was able to achieve it despite the fact that it was inside,' I insisted that 'I was able to achieve it because it was remote work.'

The claim is that 'last year (2020), we feel like we were able to do our best job for the first time in our lives, without being bound by the challenges of daily commuting and collaborative work in the office.' Following the benefits it brings, it shifts to criticism of the decision, 'Some colleagues have to quit by switching from fully remote work to mandatory work twice a week.' 'Many employees want to go back to the office and meet their colleagues in person,' Cook said in an internal letter, mentioning that management deliberately ignored employee feedback when making this decision. I know that, ”protested that it was not the intention of the employees and demanded that they continue to accept remote work to improve diversity and inclusion.

Like Apple, Google has informed the company that it will introduce a work style of 2 remotes per week and 3 work weeks after September 2021. On the other hand, Facebook and Twitter say that remote work will be allowed indefinitely even after the end of the pandemic, and the view of remote work is divided among the major IT companies in the United States.

Twitter allows employees to work at home even after the end of the new Corona-GIGAZINE