![]() Second, there’s “in-person collaboration”. Be this in employee clubs for which there is a “temporary hold on approving any new clubs” or shared public Slack channels, which now need director support and can only be about work in a very strict sense. Over the last year, you have even made it impossible to create shared community spaces where serendipity could have happened, online and remotely. Yet, you choose to keep us all in separate siloed Slack workspaces and try to prevent us from talking to each other, so software engineers don’t accidentally talk to AppleCare employees, and retail staff don’t accidentally meet hardware engineers. Slack has made this much easier over the last two years. We need to be able to reach out to each other intentionally, and have the chance to do so. It doesn’t take luck to overcome the communication silos and make cross-functional connections that are vital for Apple to function, it takes intentionality. ![]() This siloed structure is part of our culture. And often, our functional organizations have their own office buildings, in which employees from other orgs cannot work. We don’t have just one office, we have many. In your first email titled “Returning to our Offices”, you talk about “the serendipity that comes from bumping into colleagues” when everyone is in the same place. ![]() Fear of the future of work, fear of worker autonomy, fear of losing control. But in reality, it does not recognize flexible work and is only driven by fear. You have characterized the decision for the Hybrid Working Pilot as being about combining the “need to commune in-person” and the value of flexible work. We wanted to jot down some of our thoughts on the return to office so that you may better understand why we do not believe in the Hybrid Working pilot. But our vision of the future of work is growing further and further apart from that of the executive team. Today, with your leadership and our ideas we still serve all of our customers and still try to surprise and delight people with our products. We are still here, now that Apple is the most valuable company in the world. Like you, many of us were there through Apple’s near-death experience. We grew up with Apple, we told our friends and families about Apple, we dreamt of one day joining Apple. In fact, even before spending years, sometimes decades, working at Apple, many of us were devoted Apple customers. ![]()
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