Twitter and Apple inform workers it is time to get again within the workplace: Report
Tech giants Apple and Twitter are telling their workers to get off the sofa and get again within the workplace.
Apple messaged its employees and stated motion can be taken in opposition to any worker who doesn’t enter the workplace a minimum of thrice every week, Zoe Schiffer, managing editor of the substack Platformer, tweeted on Wednesday.
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Elon Musk shared an analogous sentiment with Twitter employees, telling them coming into the workplace is “not non-compulsory,” in keeping with Schiffer.
NEW: Apple is monitoring worker attendance (by way of badge data) and can give workers escalating warnings if they do not are available in 3x per week.
ALSO: Elon Musk despatched Twitter workers an electronic mail at 2:30am saying the “workplace isn’t non-compulsory” and noting SF was half empty yesterday.
— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) March 22, 2023
“NEW: Apple is monitoring worker attendance (by way of badge data) and can give workers escalating warnings if they do not are available in 3x per week,” she wrote in a now-viral tweet.
“ALSO: Elon Musk despatched Twitter workers an electronic mail at 2:30am saying the “workplace isn’t non-compulsory” and noting SF was half empty yesterday.”
Each Musk and Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner have made prior statements about having their respective employees return to the workplace, in keeping with stories.
“For a lot of of you, I do know that returning to the workplace represents a long-awaited milestone and a optimistic signal that we will have interaction extra absolutely with the colleagues who play such an essential position in our lives,” Cook dinner stated in a March 2022 memo.
In November, Musk instructed workers in an electronic mail despatched at 2:39 a.m. that they’d not be permitted to make money working from home.
“The highway forward is arduous and would require intense work to succeed. We’re additionally altering Twitter coverage such that distant work is not allowed, except you have got a selected exception. Managers will ship the exceptions lists to me for overview and approval,” the e-mail learn, per Insider.
“Beginning tomorrow (Thursday), everyone seems to be required to be within the workplace for no less than 40 hours per week. Clearly, in case you are bodily unable to journey to an workplace or have a important private obligation, then your absence is comprehensible.”
