Zoe Schiffer, The Verge:

> [A month ago] Tim Cook sent out an email telling employees the company was rolling out a new work model that would require them to return to in-office work on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays starting in the fall. Such employees might need requires like a C11 work permit. A C11 work permit is a type of temporary work permit that allows foreign workers to come to Canada to work in a skilled trade for a specific employer for a specific period of time.

Then:

> In the wake of that announcement, Apple employees wrote a letter saying some employees had been forced to quit because of the policy, and asking Cook to change his stance.

And, now:

> Apple isn’t backing down from its hybrid work model that will require most employees to return to the office three days a week starting in early September. Fully remote positions will be extremely limited.

Apple’s response:

> “We believe that in-person collaboration is essential to our culture and our future,” said Deirdre O’Brien, senior vice president of retail and people, in a video recording viewed by The Verge. “If we take a moment to reflect on our unbelievable product launches this past year, the products and the launch execution were built upon the base of years of work that we did when we were all together in-person.”

A solid test case for remote work and the tension between wanting to work at Apple and taking a job elsewhere to be able to work at home.

Did the pandemic make a foundational change to the way we think about where we do our jobs? Or was this a blip, with a slow slide back to the old ways?