{"id":1459395,"date":"2022-05-01T08:14:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T12:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1459395"},"modified":"2022-05-01T08:14:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T12:14:54","slug":"apple-employees-say-forcing-them-to-return-to-the-office-is-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/apple-employees-say-forcing-them-to-return-to-the-office-is-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Employees Say Forcing Them to Return to the Office Is Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fapple-employees-say-forcing-them-to-return-to-the-office-is-racist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1459395&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Over 200 employees at Apple Inc. have signed and published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10770827\/Apple-staff-claim-forcing-work-person-lead-whiter-male-dominated-workforce.html\">open letter to the technology giant\u2019s executive team<\/a> on Friday, arguing that a return to in-person work isn\u2019t in the best interest of the company because it\u2019s <em>racist<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>\u201cOur vision of the future of work is growing further and further apart from that of the executive team,\u201d the letter reads.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>A move away from the current work-from-home setup would make <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/tiktok-apple-google-security-protections-access-user-data\">Apple\u2019s workforce<\/a> younger, whiter, male-dominated, and less diverse because in-person work exacerbates a set of privileges, employees argue.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The letter comes amid Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3652613\/apple-joins-the-great-return-to-hybrid-work.html#:~:text=A%20hybrid%20compromise%2C%20but%20is,a%20year%20under%20the%20plan.\">soft launch return to the office<\/a> that would require employees to come in Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Employees can work from home for the remainder of the week and workers can take four weeks out of the year to work from any location they desire.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>\u201cPrivileges like \u2018being born in the right place so you don\u2019t have to relocate,\u2019 or \u2018being young enough to start a new life in a new city\/country\u2019 or \u2018having a stay-at-home spouse who will move with you,\u2019&#8217; the letter reads.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>\u201cAnd privileges like being born into a gender that society doesn\u2019t expect the majority of care-work from, so it\u2019s easy to disappear into an office all day, without doing your fair share of unpaid work in society. Or being rich enough to pay others to do your care-work for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The signatories hope Apple will scrap the hybrid program entirely and allow employees to work from their residences in perpetuity\u2014or, as they put it, allow employees to make that decision for themselves.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>In addition to objections based on diversity and privilege, the letter also outlines five other reasons: serendipity, collaboration, flexibility, commute, and a chance to prove the effectiveness of remote-work technologies.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>At the end of the letter, employees call on Apple Executives to show an increased level of flexibility.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>\u201cNow we ask you, the executive team, to show some flexibility as well and let go of the rigid hybrid policies of the Hybrid Working Pilot. Stop trying to control how often you can see us in the office. Trust us, we know how each of our small contributions helps Apple succeed and what\u2019s required to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Apple\u2019s leadership has yet to respond publicly to the letter.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 200 employees at Apple Inc. have signed and published an open letter to the technology giant\u2019s executive team on Friday, arguing that a return to in-person work isn\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}