Tim Cook has some issues he’s going to have to deal with. Quickly.
His stock price, market cap, and new products all seem to be operating at high efficiency, but many of his employees are ticked off they will have to go to the office to do their job again.
Apple Inc. is instituting a plan starting later this month to allow workers to have a flexible schedule where they work three days in the office. To say that employees have not taken that news well would be the understatement of the century.
The idea of having to go to the office for a job has set employees off to the point that they have formed a workers’ rights group called Apple Together. Their mission is to fight back against what they apparently view as draconian measures of having to go to the office to work.
Here’s part of the group’s response to top executives.
“Apple will likely always find people willing to work here, but our current policies requiring everyone to relocate to the office their team happens to be based in, and being in the office at least 3 fixed days of the week, will change the makeup of our workforce. It will make Apple younger, whiter, more male-dominated, more neuro-normative, more able-bodied, in short, it will lead to privileges deciding who can work for Apple, not who’d be the best fit.
Privileges like “being born in the right place so you don’t have to relocate”, or “being young enough to start a new life in a new city/country” or “having a stay-at-home spouse who will move with you”. And privileges like being born into a gender that society doesn’t expect the majority of care-work from, so it’s easy to disappear into an office all day, without doing your fair share of unpaid work in society. Or being rich enough to pay others to do your care-work for you.
Instead of throwing money at the problem and just increasing referral bonuses to replace those of our colleagues, who left over the executive team’s inflexibility, how about we create a work environment where everyone, who wants to work at Apple, is able to do so?”
Your move, Tim!
By the way, Apple’s new corporate headquarters cost $5 billion to build and probably has more perks and amenities per square inch than any other office in the world.
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