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The group is circulating a petition after Apple chief executive Tim Cook said employees at its headquarters in Cupertino, California must be back at their desks for three days a week from September 5.
Tech workers are worried about their jobs, especially in San Francisco. And those worries may be a key factor in the tug-of-war between employees who want to keep working remotely,
Apple has reversed course on its plans to return to normal operations and has suspended requirements that employees return to the office this month for at least three days a week. The U-turn comes after woke employees called the mandate to return to the office a racist move designed to make the company “younger, whiter, and male-dominated.”
After telling employees they had to be in the office three days a week beginning May 23, Apple softened its position; it will continue a two-day-per-week office mandate as official hybrid policy. An Apple employee group said the change doesn't go far enough.
Apple's plans are on ice due to an increase in Covid-19 cases, but employees don't mind one bit.