A small group of Apple Inc. employees has filed a petition protesting the company’s policy for employees to return to the office starting Sept. 5 at least three days a week.
Apple, one of the first major U.S. corporations to send its workers home at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, postponed its return to office (RTO) date several times as the pandemic mutated to new variants.
AppleTogether, whose petition has gathered 270 signatures, is not pleased with Apple’s new mandate for workers to return Tuesdays and Thursdays and to work with their managers to select at least one other day of the week to be in the office.
The rationale the workers give in their petition are: “disabilities (visible or not); family care; safety, health, and environmental concerns; financial considerations; to just plain being happier and more productive,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“We believe that Apple should encourage, not prohibit, flexible work to build a more diverse and successful company,” they add.
The workers are opposed to having to share private information with their bosses and their teams to determine their working arrangements, be it work from home (WFH), RTO or a hybrid of the two.
WSJ was unable to determine if all 270 of the signatures on the petition belong to Apple employees, which number 165,000 worldwide.
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