Apple’s trying to wrangle its corporate employees back to in-person work for three days a week.
The company has informed its corporate employees that they must return to in-person work three days a week beginning September 5.
Employees will now need to work on-site Tuesday and Thursday, as well as a third day set by individual teams, according to Bloomberg.
Back in May, Apple began requiring employees to work in-office two days as week as part of the company’s hybrid work program. The move was viewed as a compromise with employees who wanted to continue working from home.
According to one study, up to 56 percent of Apple employees who did not want to shift back to in-person work began to actively seek work elsewhere. This included Apple’s director of machine learning, Ian Goodfellow, who resigned from the company after three years, in part due to the return-to-office policy. Goodfellow would later join up with Google’s AI research branch, DeepMind.
In June, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the company was trialing ways to balance remote working with in-office time.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via AppleInsider and Bloomberg