The other shoe has dropped in Cupertino. After reports last week of Google calling employees back to the office and Twitter opening its offices (though not forcing folks to return), Apple has decided it’s time for employees to head back to the Park, albeit slowly.
A piece from Engadget says Apple CEO Tim Cook sent an email to Apple workers on Friday, offering encouraging words and laying out a schedule. On the encouragement side, the CEO said:
In the coming weeks and months, we have an opportunity to combine the best of what we have learned about working remotely with the irreplaceable benefits of in-person collaboration… It is as important as ever that we support each other through this transition, through the challenges we face as a team and around the world.
As for when who has to be where, the piece says employees need to be back at their desks at least one day a week beginning the week of 11 April. That needs to be up to two days a week by the week of 2 May. By 23 May, the piece says, “they'll have to work from the office at least on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays amid a shift to a hybrid work model.”
