Apple has also joined a growing number of technology companies in recalling employees to the office, setting April 11 as the deadline for employees to return to the office in person at least one day a week.
According to a memo sent by CEO Tim Cook on Friday and first reported by Bloomberg, employees will work in the office twice a week after three weeks of April 11. By May 23, the requirement will be raised to at least three days a week.
Apple has an important influence in the Seattle area. It has an office in Dexter building, 333 of the South Lake alliance. Prior to the coronavirus epidemic in 2019, Cupertino, headquartered in California, announced a large-scale expansion plan in Seattle in June 2019. The company said at the time that in the next five years, the city would increase to 2000 employees, calling Seattle a “key engineering center”
Prior to the development of Dexter, Apple had about 500 employees in Seattle who worked in Union Square, a 56 story office building in the city center. Geekwire contacted apple for the latest employment data in Seattle and will update it when we receive a reply.
“In the coming weeks and months, we will have the opportunity to combine what we have learned about the advantages of remote work with the irreplaceable benefits of personal collaboration,” Cook said in a memo, Bloomberg reported. “As important as ever, we support each other in this transformation and in the challenges we face as a team and around the world.”
Apple’s move came after other companies announced their return to the office, including Google. Google has about 7000 employees in Seattle and Kirkland, Washington., Employees are expected to return to the mixed working mode three days a week from April 4. Microsoft and Expedia are also bringing employees back.