Fortune has published an excerpt from senior editor-at-large Adam Lashinsky new book, “Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired–and Secretive–Company Really Works”:
Apple employees know something big is afoot when the carpenters appear in their office building. New walls are quickly erected. Doors are added and new security protocols put into place. Windows that once were transparent are now frosted. Other rooms have no windows at all. They are called lockdown rooms: No information goes in or out without a reason.
The hubbub is disconcerting for employees. Quite likely you have no idea what is going on, and it’s not like you’re going to ask. If it hasn’t been disclosed to you, then it’s literally none of your business.
Forgive me for
sounding like Welch here, but this is what I don’t get. Apple has so much
information about it’s company, what it does, who it works with, it’s eco
policy, it’s support, it’s financials, all very easily accessible online; but
because it hasn’t told us and all of it’s 63000 global employees about the iTrouser press they are releasing next year, it is one
step up from a Machiavellian institution.