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heyheyitsbigk said:

larryjw said:

But does a return to the office makes sense from a productivity perspective? For most employees, in the office is nothing more than a proxy for are you working -- and a poor one at that. 

The ONLY judge of “productivity” is the employer. 

That is so wrong holy moly lol wow . No productivity should only be judged by metrics, otherwise you immediately are just using bias which is not only bad for the company but bad policy in general. WOW yikes that's like saying the only one who can tell if a company is doing well is the CEO of the company.

So reading through the comments I'm getting a firm understanding of that no one has a clue how these tech companies work. I broke what issues yall have  into two categories.

 1 I can't do my job from home so WHY should you be able too.

These tech companies are international brands they're co workers are world wide . So I come in and my Devs are in HU, QC is in the UK ,   the hardware engineers are in Spain the manufacturers are in Taiwan so yeah it makes no sense for someone who has no one in the office to go to the office.  If you're a nurse, construction worker , etc yeah makes sense your in the office your coworkers are there the tools you need to do your job are there like right makes sense. 

2. COMPANY SAID RETURN AND HOW DARE YOU NOT LIKE THAT/ THIS IS FAILURE TO COMPLY YOU DESERVE TO BE FIRED.

So setting aside the fact, that the days of "you should feel privileged to work here" are so far and beyond over. People have set up their lives spent money bought houses around working from home, their kids lives are built around. As well as a myriad of other reasons that make sense for people to WFH. They are a military spouse,  they have a handicap, They just had a child or their child has special needs and the list goes on for miles. 

For those who say that these job postings were for in office so get over it and take your firing. I mean hopefully can see the nuisance here and will soften that stance. It has also been in my observation when managers drink the kool-aid this hard and are this inflexible about policy, they are first on the chopping block because they are not liked by other department heads or tend to make enemies with people that do get promoted and it ends up stifling their careers. 

SUMMARY 

Tim Cook should care about one thing and that is making money for Apple. So why would he care about a facility that Apple owns and can easily ( rent out if needed) all of sudden being full. I know the author down plaied it but this is an obvious hey we need to cut labor here is an easy way to do that.