Tech giant Apple has issued an order asking its employees to work from the office three days a week.
As Covid gripped the world, companies asked their employees to work from home. But in recent weeks, closed offices have begun to reopen due to fewer COVID-19 cases in various parts of the world.
Tech giant Apple also issued an order asking its employees to work from the office three days a week. But many employees don’t seem happy with Apple’s return policy.
Ian Goodfellow, the director of machine learning, resigned last week, informing his colleagues that CEO Tim Cook’s pressure to get employees back into the office had pushed him out, according to a report in The edge†
“I am convinced that more flexibility would have been the best policy for my team,” he said, according to the report.
According to his LinkedIn page, Mr. Goodfellow has been working for Apple since 2019. His profile further stated that he is “an industry leader in machine learning”.
According to FortuneBetween April 13 and April 19 of this year, 652 Apple employees took part in an anonymous social networking survey conducted by Blind. While the names of the interviewees are unknown, their employment status was confirmed using their Apple corporate email addresses.
Seventy-six percent of Apple employees surveyed were unhappy with the company’s return policy, which was introduced after the COVID-19 outbreak subsided. Fortune further in the report.
Apple started its hybrid work plan from April 11 this year, asking company employees to come to the office once a week. From May 23, employees must come to the office three days a week.
