Apple slows return to office, will let employees stay remote and require masks in common spaces
by Richard Lawler from The Verge - All Posts on (#5ZBGD)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is delaying moving forward on its hybrid return to work for office employees, saying in a memo seen by The Verge and (reported earlier by Bloomberg) that we are extending the phase-in period of the pilot and maintaining two days a week in the office for the time being." Employees who are in the current two-day-per-week pilot will have the option to once again work fully remote if they feel uncomfortable coming into the office,
In the memo, the company's COVID-19 response team says that its updates are based on monitoring local info like test positivity and hospitalization rates. The memo also asks employees to go back to wearing masks when in common areas like meeting rooms, hallways, and elevators. The Bloomberg report added...