Apple and the Latest COVID Surge: Fewer Days Back and More Masks

18 MAY 2022 - Just when some thought it was safe to go back in the office, Apple seems to be tapping the brakes on its back-to-work-at-work plans. “Blaming a rise in coronavirus cases,” a piece from Apple Insider says the Cupertino-company “has told staff they will have to work from offices two days per week, instead of three.” The piece cites a report from Bloomberg. That cites an internal Apple memo that says the full three-days is being postponed “for the time being.”

Oh… and we’re gonna need to mask-up for those two days. The report says:

Staff based in at least Silicon Valley offices, possibly more, have also been told that they will again be required to wear face masks in common areas.

See also: About 100 Apple Stores in the U.S. iDownloadBlog had its eyes on Twitter. There, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman linked to the two-days-not-three story, adding in his Twitter post:

Apple is also reinstating its mask mandate at about 100 US retail stores today [Tuesday 17 May] — for employees.

Stressing that the mandate is employee-only indicates that visiting customers will not be required to mask up, according to the report.