The health situation forced virtually all Apple employees to work remotely for several months. Now that the crisis is already behind us, the company is preparing for a face-to-face return to the offices. An already progressive turn, with a hybrid system that will start on a large scale next February.
A gradual return to an Apple Park designed for team interaction
According to an internal memo obtained by The Information, Apple is preparing the return in person in the offices from February, when employees will have to go to the corporate campus or offices one to two days a week. In March, Apple expects employees to be in the office on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, and work from home on Wednesdays and Fridays.
A hybrid teleworking system which will gradually increase the physical presence in the workspace, but which does not concern teams which have “a greater need for face-to-face work” such as hardware engineers, who they need the tools and machines of the workshops to develop their work.
In this hybrid system, Apple decided to implement the one that employees can work remotely for a full month per year. A most interesting resource that “offers more opportunities to travel, to be closer to loved ones or just to change your routine”, as Tim Cook commented in a letter to all employees.
Apple’s corporate culture has always been face-to-face. Apple Park itself is designed to encourage interactions between teams so that ideas or suggestions can be shared, so that sooner or later employees end up returning to an Apple Park where many of us would already like to have their own. office.
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