Apple Staff Told They Won’t Return to the Office Unil 2022
Apple has scrapped its plans for corporate staff around the world to return to the office later this year, having decided not to welcome them back until January 2022 – at the earliest – instead. As seems to be the case with most recent news stories, this change comes because of fears over the Delta variant. The Guardian has the story.
The iPhone maker, which will still keep its network of retail stores open, had previously told staff there would be a phased return to work from October. The delayed office return applies to its international workforce, including those based in the U.K.
The company told staff in a memo that it would confirm the reopening plans one month before employees were required to return to the office, according to Bloomberg News.
The memo, sent by the Human Resources and Retail Head, Deirdre O’Brien, added that the company did not currently expect to close its offices or retail stores, but she strongly encouraged staff to get vaccinated. …
Apple, which last month reinstated the mask-wearing policy for in-store staff that it had only decided to scrap in June, had previously planned to ask staff to return to its offices on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays by early September, before delaying that to October. Employees would be able to work remotely on Wednesdays and Fridays.
In the U.K., the company employs 7,000 staff and operates 38 retail stores, the most in any country in Europe. …
Apple is the latest major corporation to decide conditions are not yet safe enough to expect staff to return to offices.
Earlier this month, Microsoft said it would push back the reopening of its corporate offices from September until at least October 4th.
Amazon staff will remain working remotely until at least January 3rd, while Google has extended its voluntary work from home period until October 18th, having previously outlined plans for a September return.
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2022 might as well be never. What will have changed? In the UK, pretty much everyone has been fully vaxxed that is going to be. Short of new vaxes, that’s the last card now played. Lots of covidians I know keep talking about some mythical point in the future when covid will be over, and I keep asking them what will have changed. They used to say vaxes. Now they have no answer.
Not even “vaccine passports”?
Yes, we understand how futile and pointless they are (for infection control, rather than mind and behaviour control).
But we left the last vestiges of rationality and critical thinking in the rear-view mirror long, long ago.
Possibly yes, the next step is segregation. Apple could of course impose their own, but of course there’s the issue of people needing to travel to get to the office, on public transport infested with the dirty unvaxxed.
Does this include all the people in China who make their phones for them and hurl themselves out of windows in suicidal despair? Will they have to kill themselves at home now?
Yes excellent point!
No matter if they have been vaccinated?
BTW. Can you please change the spelling error?
Oh, is that not their new operating system, then?
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We thinking this is a good sign or no?
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There’s a certain warped logic to it. It’s now Settled Science that Our Vaccines don’t actually offer any protection against catching or passing on the Death Bug. Heck, even the Grauniad has finally acknowledged that, two weeks after everybody else.
And there’s not the merest shred of evidence that random pieces of cloth draped loosely over your mouth (or strapped under your chin) do anything to stop an aerosolised virus.
So if you do believe that the Chinese Virus is actually lethal, then there is no safe way to return to the office, or commute there in approved socialist transport, ever.
Welcome to the New Normal, chaps. Building Back Better by cowering under our beds, forever.
‘Double plague vaxxed have smaller buboes,’ experts say.
I wonder if that holds with Bozo?! Perhaps Carrie S would know.
I can see a lot of companies doing the same.
My outfit has been kicking the can down the road for some time.
Bringing people back into the office is problematic because, if my firm is anything to go by, anything up to 2/3 of people are worried about going into the office from a health & safety perspective.
Then you have the problem of masks and vaccines. If you mandate them, a lot of people like us are going to object and not comply. But that will upset all the Karens.
Far easier just to stick with the status quo for another winter and hope the whole thing goes away.
I think if you reopen the office you ideally want to give staff the choice of what they want to do, and not penalise anyone for their choice, as long as they get the work done – as long as that doesn’t damage productivity and is feasible for what your firm does.
You then need to decide whether you want to be covid-safe or not. Whichever decision you make, you’re going to upset one group or the other, and I can’t see any practical way of avoiding that. We have reopened with no restrictions and as far as I am aware there has been no pushback. Those who don’t feel safe will most likely not fancy getting the train to work anyway, and driving to central London isn’t really an option.
I’ve been working at the office the whole time and not wearing a mask, I’m still alive
My experinence is that a large number of people are allegedly terrified of the office because they want to continue working at home. These also often seem to be those who live within walking distance of the office. They don’t seem at all terrified when it comes to social activities though – strange, that!
Re working from home. My son has been told by his company that he has to work from home, he doesn’t want to but doesn’t want to cause a fuss as he is new. The company has not asked the home owner’s permission (me) and as such I am thinking of charging them a daily rate for the use of my home for their business -has anyone done this and do you know if it is feasible?
Well you would definitely have to notify your home insurance company and you would be within your rights to pass any additional charges on to the employer.
You might need Public Liability Insurance.
If your son has company equipment that might require insurance. Your insurance company might require additional security measures.
I would also check with HMRC regarding any room rental you might wish to charge.
I’m not just after recovering additional costs, I’m after making a profit. I am annoyed that they think they can just send my son to work from home without asking permission of the home owner (me) , and by doing so they are saving on the costs of office space, so I can’t see why I can’t become there ‘landlord’ and change them for the limited use of my premises. I have tried to find guidance on line but can’t find anything so it looks like I am in unchartered territory
I doubt you can recover costs from them, but you could check if your son’s contract of employment says anything about his normal place of work. Ours states that it’s the office but that staff may be asked to work elsewhere from time to time. When it was written it was more intended to cover travel to see customers or working on customer sites, though the wording would cover WFH. I think “from time to time” probably can’t be made to mean “forever” though. Our staff can choose. We don’t give people extra money to cover expenses, partly because they are saving on travel and partly because the staff own the business so additional profits from saving money on office space go into our pockets – clearly other firms will use this situation to take advantage.
Thanks but I think you may be missing the point I am trying to make. I care not what my son’s contract is, or how he may save money on travel etc. My issue is that the company he works for wants to use my house for their business, I’m sort of OK with that if they are prepared to pay for the use of my home. I think they are using Covid as an excuse to relocate people to work from home and thus save the costs of renting office space. What would happen, regardless of my son’s contract, if I just point blank refused to let him use my home for his work?
I wish I knew. I hope your situation resolves itself. Like everything else with covid, people with no morals will try to take advantage.
I would contact HMRC. You will probably have to send an email because if you ‘phone the message will be that they are working from home.
Contact your MP. It’s not as if they are busy.
There is Nothing to stop you charging the employer – your home, your rules.
You could also enquire via Lawyer’s for Liberty.
Apple – like Covid – Chinese manufactured, wildly expensive, over-hyped, and over here.
Hardly surprising that Apple feel obliged to keep the myth burning brightly.
To be fair, who cares what Apple are doing
Their fanboys normally care to an obessive degree!
Who said an apple a day keeps the doctor away?!