Apple’s Fortress of Secrecy is Crumbling from the Inside
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Apple's fortress of secrecy is crumbling from the inside:
Apple's remote work struggle is emblematic of a deeper shift taking place inside the company. Since 1976, the tech giant has operated in largely the same way: executives make decisions about how the company will function, and employees either fall in line or leave. What choice do they have? Apple is currently worth $2 trillion, making it the most valuable company in the world, as well as one of the most powerful.
Over the past few months, however, that culture has started to erode. As workers across the tech industry advocate for more power, Apple's top-down management seems more out of touch than ever before. Now, a growing number of employees are organizing internally for change and speaking out about working conditions on Twitter.
There's a shift in the balance of power going on here," says Jason Snell, the former editor of Macworld, who's been covering Apple since the 1990s. Not everyone is afraid that their boss at Apple is going to fire them. They're saying, I'm going to say some bad things about Apple, and if you move against me, it's going to look bad for you.'"
The shift is due in part to the fact that the tech giant is two years into a radical new experiment: using Slack. Where Apple employees previously worked in ultra-siloed teams with little opportunity to meet people outside their current project or department, they now have a way to communicate with anyone across the company. Employees have discovered that individual work grievances are shared by people in entirely different parts of Apple.
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