{"id":6510,"date":"2021-06-08T08:36:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T12:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6510"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:59:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:59:57","slug":"apple-employees-protest-new-office-work-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/apple-employees-protest-new-office-work-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Employees Protest New Office Work Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Apple employees are protesting the CEO&#8217;s order for a widespread return to office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tim Cook announced in a memo released last week that employees should be in the office at least three days a week by September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Employees are demanding more flexibility, and the policy has already forced some Apple workers to quit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This new policy applies nationwide to teams that have to work in person and require a four or five day week at the office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement of refutation, the staff requested the following:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-c96613e7-42a4-4c73-9dbe-281b2c972272\" class=\"block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block is-selected rich-text\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"group\" contenteditable=\"true\" spellcheck=\"false\" aria-multiline=\"true\" aria-label=\"Block: List\" data-block=\"c96613e7-42a4-4c73-9dbe-281b2c972272\" data-type=\"core\/list\" data-title=\"List\">\n<li>Apple leaves work decisions remotely to individual teams<\/li>\n<li>A company-wide survey on the topic across teams and the entire company<\/li>\n<li>Exit interviews to ask specifically about &#8220;employee churn&#8221; because of remote work<\/li>\n<li>A plan to take account of disability through remote and on-site work<\/li>\n<li>Information on the environmental impact of on-site work compared to remote work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p>Google took a similar step when the tech giant instructed its employees to work three days a week in the office until September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Facebook is taking a different tack, recognizing the reality that remote work is &#8220;the future&#8221; and that workers can continue to work from home, even though they have been criticized for forcing contractors back to their offices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twitter is in the same league as Facebook, enabling employees to work from home forever, provided that the employee&#8217;s specific role enables remote work.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-57385999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in the BBC.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple employees are protesting the CEO&#8217;s order for a widespread return to office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[202],"class_list":["post-6510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-of-work","tag-apple"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6510"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6536,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510\/revisions\/6536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}