Adam Kos The global pandemic of the disease COVID-19 has locked employees in their homes, and the phrase home office has been inflected more often than ever before. Even though the coronavirus is still with us, the situation is already driving workers back to their offices. And many don't like it.
Last year, Apple had 154 employees worldwide, so the decision whether everyone will still be at home, some or all of them will return to their jobs will affect many. Apple has decided it's time to start getting things back on track and wants employees to return to their workplaces at least three days a week. After all, as Tim Cook says: "Personal collaboration is essential for effective work."
But then there's a group called Apple Together, which points out that the company's value continues to increase regardless of whether employees work from home or in the office. Its representatives even wrote a petition calling for a more flexible approach to the situation of returning to offices. It's amazing how something like this can happen when in 2019 something like this would be completely unthinkable.
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Compared to other technology giants, however, Apple's policy seems to be relatively uncompromising. Some leave it entirely up to the employees to decide whether they want to go to work or prefer to stay at home, or require them to come to work only two days a week. Apple wants three days, where that one day probably plays a big role. Why should I go to work three days, when others can only two days? But Apple doesn't want to back down. New process commuting to work should start on September 5, after several postponements of the original date.
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Vratislav Holub Even Google didn't have it easy
In March of this year, even Google employees did not like returning to the office. They already knew then that D-day would come for them on April 4. But the problem was that Google did not make a clear decision here, because some members of even one team had to come to work in person, others could work from their homes or wherever they happened to be. Even Google achieved record profits during the pandemic, so it could also appear in this case that working from home is really paying off. Of course, it was so that ordinary employees had to come, managers could stay at home. Google then started threatening that those who work from home will reduce their salary.
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The pandemic has forced employees to get used to a flexible work environment, i.e. from home, and many find personal commuting unattractive, which is not surprising. Most of them cite as a reason for continuing to work from home the fact that they will save time for commuting and thus also save their finances. The loss of a flexible schedule comes in third place, while the need for formal attire is also disliked. But there are also positives, as employees look forward to seeing their colleagues face to face again. You can read more about how employees view the return to work <a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1932/8043/files/200721_ODSTOUPENI_BEZ_UDANI_DUVODU__EN.pdf?v=1595428404" data-gt-href-en="https://en.notsofunnyany.com/">here</a>.
Already on March 15, Twitter also opened its offices. He left it entirely up to the employees if they wanted to return or if they wanted to stay while working from home. Microsoft then states that there is a new chapter of hybrid work. Anyone who wants to work from home for more than 50% of their working time must be approved by their manager. So it's not a strict regulation, like in the case of Apple, but it's by agreement, and that's the difference. Approaches to the situation are therefore different, both from the point of view of the company and its employees.
