After numerous delays and false starts, Apple has finally set a firm start date for its hybrid work arrangement. According to Bloomberg and The Verge, the tech behemoth will begin requiring employees in its Santa Clara Valley offices to report to work three times a week beginning September 5th.
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They are expected to come in on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with their individual teams determining the third day. Apple’s SVP of software engineering, Craig Federighi, encouraged employees to share their thoughts on the third team-specific day with their managers to help them decide.
Since June 2021, Apple has planned to implement a hybrid arrangement in which employees are required to work from its offices. However, at the time, it required personnel to come in on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.
Since then, the company, which places a high value on what Tim Cook refers to as the “irreplaceable benefits of in-person collaboration,” has made several attempts to implement a hybrid work week arrangement but has had to keep pushing its plans back due to rising COVID-19 cases and other factors.
Earlier this year, it attempted once more to begin enforcing its hybrid work policy in the week beginning May 23rd. Employees, on the other hand, had criticized the policy for being “driven by fear” — “fear of the future of work, fear of worker autonomy, fear of losing control,” they wrote in an open letter.
Over the policy, Apple reportedly lost Ian Goodfellow, its director of machine learning and the most cited expert in the field. In the end, the company reversed course and softened its stance, launching a pilot program that required some employees to report to the company’s offices two days per week instead.
It appears that Apple will continue to require employees to report to its offices. “The true start of our hybrid work pilot in the Santa Clary Valley will be September 5th,” Federighi wrote in his memo.
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However, as he stated, it is still a pilot, and the company expects to learn from its implementation in the coming months as it prepares for employees to return to work in other locations.
