The Apple Together Group Issued An Open Letter Opposing Apple's Request For People To Return To Their Offices And Offered To Listen To Them If Steve Jobs Was Still In The World Apple Together Is An Apple Employee Rights Protection Group That Began With #appletoo Movement. The Group Organized A Retail Store Employee Strike On December 24, 2021. When Apple Authorized Employees To Return To The Office In April 2022, The Group Wrote An Open Letter Protesting The Move.
"Ideas About Office Work" Is An 1800 Word Letter Published Simultaneously In English, Portuguese, Spanish And German. It Involves Returning To Work, Especially Apple's Hybrid Work Plan, In Which Employees Allocate Work Between Home And Office Every Week.
The Letter Said: "the Pilot Of Mixed Work Is Not To Increase Flexibility, It Is A Smoke Screen. For Many Of Our Teams, It Is Often A Step Back To Flexibility... Everyone Is Required To Reorganize The Team And Office Location, And Be In The Office At Least Three Fixed Days A Week, Which Will Change The Composition Of Our Labor Force."
" [it ] Will Lead To Privileges That Determine Who Can Work For Apple, Not The Most Suitable Person," The Statement Continued. "Privileges Such As' Born In The Right Place, So You Don't Have To Move ', Or' Young Enough To Start A New Life In A New City / Country ', Or' Having A Spouse Who Stays At Home Will Move With You."
"We Tell All Our Customers How Great Our Products Are For Remote Work, But We Can't Use Them To Work Remotely Ourselves?" The Letter Said. "How Can We Expect Our Customers To Take This Seriously? If We Don't Live In It, How Can We Understand What Problems Of Remote Work Need Our Products To Solve?"
"Or As Steve [jobs ] Said: 'it Doesn't Make Sense To Hire Smart People And Tell Them What To Do. We Hire Smart People To Let Them Tell Us What To Do.".
"Here We Are," The Letter Said, "the Smart People You Hire, And We Are Telling You What To Do. Please Make Way For Us. There Is No Universal Solution. Let Us Decide The Best Way To Work And Let Us Do The Best Job In Our Life.".
Apple Did Not Respond To The Letter. However, After Making A Similar Request To Continue Working From Home In July 2022, Dildeli O'Brien, Apple's Senior Vice President Of Retail And Personnel, Advocated Gradually Returning Employees To The Office.
"We Believe That Face-to-face Cooperation Is Crucial To Our Culture And Our Future," She Said If We Take A Moment To Reflect On Our Incredible Product Launches Last Year, These Products And Their Implementation Are Based On Our Years Of Work, When We Were All Together In Person. "