Apple tells staff to come into the office for at least three days a week
Apple has told its employees they must come in to the office for at least three days a week from next month, in an effort to restore “in-person collaboration”.
In a memo to all employees, Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, said the policy would require all staff to return to the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays, as well as a third day that would vary team by team.
“We are excited to move forward with the pilot and believe that this revised framework will enhance our ability to work flexibly, while preserving the in-person collaboration that is so essential to our culture,” Cook said in the memo.
The official plan, emphasised as just a pilot in Cook’s letter, is already a step back from an earlier proposal for all employees to come in on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday every week.
The shift to a flexible day in addition to the two midweek days will allow some employees to continue to have four unbroken days at home each week.
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Apple had long been an outlier among its peers on the question of remote working. While tech companies including Twitter and Facebook implemented policies at the start of the Covid pandemic that allowed employees to opt for permanent home working, Apple has maintained throughout that its long-term plan is for all employees to return to in-person work.
In June 2021, when Apple first proposed a return to the office for three days a week, Cook told employees that “for all that we’ve been able to achieve while many of us have been separated, the truth is that there has been something essential missing from this past year: each other. Video conference calling has narrowed the
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