Tech

Prominent Apple staffers write letters to management, resign over office return

Enlarge / Apple’s global headquarters in Cupertino, California. (credit: Sam Hall/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Apple’s efforts to return its workers to the office are facing continuing resistance from an organized group of employees, and at least one prominent resignation has taken place over the issue. The Verge reporter Zoë Schiffer tweeted on Saturday that Ian […]

COVID 19 Tech

After months-long battle, Apple takes the due date off its return-to-office plans

Enlarge / Apple’s global headquarters in Cupertino, California. (credit: Sam Hall/Bloomberg via Getty Images) It’s been a rocky road for Apple’s return-to-office plans. Over the past few months, we’ve reported on numerous stops and starts, but the industry behemoth seems to have come to the hardest stop yet, according to a Bloomberg report. According to […]

COVID 19 Tech

Apple employees will return to the office this February, leaked Cook email says

Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook. (credit: Chris Foresman) Few large companies have had a more contentious internal argument over remote work amid the pandemic than Apple, but it is moving ahead with bringing many employees back into physical offices starting in February. As previously reported by CNBC, Apple CEO Tim Cook, in an email to […]

Tech

As office returns get postponed, workers say they’d take pay cut to work from home

Enlarge / Apple’s global headquarters in Cupertino, California. (credit: Sam Hall/Bloomberg via Getty Images) As Apple and other big tech companies postpone their planned returns to physical offices, a survey has found that workers around the United States would give up a lot to stay remote. As previously reported by ZDNet, GoodHire published a survey […]

COVID 19 Tech

Vaccines, reopenings, and worker revolts: Big Tech’s contentious return to the office

Enlarge / Apple offices in northern California. (credit: Apple ) All across the United States, the leaders at large tech companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook are engaged in a delicate dance with thousands of employees who have recently become convinced that physically commuting to an office every day is an empty and unacceptable demand […]

Tech

Working from home now? Your 2020 state tax situation could suck

Enlarge / The arm of the law can be long indeed. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Imagine for a moment that you work remotely—as so many now do in the COVID era—from a comfortable spare bedroom in your New Jersey home. Your employer is nominally based in New York City, but thanks to the […]

Business

Work has outgrown the office. What’s next?

Looking back at 2020, it seems like our world turned upside down, from a global pandemic and climate catastrophes down to the mundane details of what it means to go to work each day. But the silver lining for most people with an office job is that, in the long run, the rise of remote […]

Business

Slack outage stumps returning workers in 2021

This story was assigned to me via an antiquated technology: email. That’s because messaging service Slack, which has more than 142,000 paying corporate customers including Fortune, was offline as of Monday morning—leaving knowledge workers returning to work after the New Year’s holiday with the loss of a critical software tool. The company, which will be […]

Business

Employers bringing Employees back into the Workplace Might be inviting them into an Unknown Location

Millions of office employees and the businesses which use them will find in 2021 if the job practices they {} in the pandemic are a brand fresh standard or a catastrophe make-do greatest left behind. In the procedure, companies will start to learn if the office bets they are producing for the long run are […]