Post-pandemic, employees are coming up with every possible reason/excuse to avoid going back into the office.
Last week, a group of U.S.-based Apple employees called Apple Together issued an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, protesting his plan to have them go back to the office for three days a week. They said such a move is “only driven by fear” of making the company more diverse and inclusive.
The letter stated, in part, that: “It will make Apple younger, whiter, more male-dominated, more neuro-normative, more able-bodied. In short, it will lead to privileges deciding who can work for Apple, not who’d be the best fit.”
It said that forcing people to come physically to work would advantage those who were born in the “right place,” were younger, and had a stay-at-home spouse.
“Stop treating us like school kids who need to be told when to be where and what homework to do,” the Apple Together members concluded.
Let’s hope Cook and other Apple executives respond to this tantrum by recognizing that these are the demands of entitled school kids. They only demonstrate just why such people probably aren’t a good fit for Apple or any other company that aspires to be successful.