Apple CEO Tim Cook said during an interview at The Atlantic Festival on Monday that he’s been impressed by some employees remote work and predicted that some new work habits will remain after the pandemic.
Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News:
Cook said Apple created products including new Apple Watches and iPads that are launching on time this year, despite the need for most employees to work away from the office due to COVID-19. Cook said he doesn’t believe Apple will “return to the way we were because we’ve found that there are some things that actually work really well virtually.”
Cook said 10% to 15% of Apple employees have gone back to the office and he hopes the majority of staff can return to the company’s new campus in Silicon Valley sometime next year.
The CEO said he goes into the office at different points during the week and he noted that remote work is “not like being together physically.” Working in the office sparks creativity such as during impromptu meetings, he added.
MacDailyNews Take: Too bad Apple didn’t have a remote teleconferencing service ready to go long before COVID-19 hit the world. They’ve had the technological knowhow to do a “Good Zoom” for decades now, based on QuickTime, iMessage, and FaceTime, but alas. That’s a big time opportunity squandered, because Apple brass didn’t see the value of remote work until they were forced to open their eyes.
Apple Park spaceship going up for rent?
That’s what I was thinking… There’s going to be a lot of empty offices in that beautiful new multi-billion dollar building if this is the new normal.
Nope, space for the homeless. We finished our $700k per unit homeless pods here in LA so this is next….
And when Apple makes a tele conference program watch the crying about antitrust, Apple can’t make every program, but they do have to curate their app store to have the best, and right the app store needs to be pruned back.
Why wait till 2021 to go back, the real Covid rate now in CA is really low… course you’d never know that listening to most media..
Santa Clara County new cases are down from their peak, thanks to the Tier Two (Red) restrictions in effect, but there are still over 100/day and the curve of reported deaths has not flattened significantly.
https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-cases.asp
You’d be a great Gulag administrator.
And you are already great at denying reality. Facts are facts. As somebody recently pointed out, it is what it is—including the fact that if the US had handled the virus as well as Germany we would have 150,000 fewer deaths. Ignoring reasonable public health protocols now, rather than being as cautious as Apple, could cause hundreds of thousands more unnecessary deaths.
https://www.heritage.org/data-visualizations/public-health/one-percent-of-us-counties-account-for-bulk-of-covid-19-deaths/?_ga=2.45271140.1563352794.1600365659-1718066305.1568030485
And yet most of the deaths are in Democrat run counties either in Democrat run states or cities.
Hard to get anything done when using one hand to cover your ass and the other to point at someone else. But you’re a Democrat, so that’s what you do….
Well said, @TowerTone. TxUser is still pedaling for months the FALSE NARRATIVE of the present Number One election strategy of the Democrat Party Trump failed early on with C19 response and thousands died because of Trump. BALONEY!!!
NO! Thousands died because of the VIRUS!!! President Trump closed the borders to China and what did Biden say at the time TxUser? What did Pelosi Say at the time regarding come to Chinatown TxUser? Too easy to expose Democrat HYPOCRISY and lately in this particular election cycle it is pissing me off big time and firing me up!
The hypocrisy of the Democrat Party and their daily false narrative posting TOOLS or is it FOOLS, TxUser numero uno on MDN, is at an all time time high.
TxUser lying fake conservative, Trump will win in a landslide and all the false information you post daily will amount to NOTHING!
Sweet dreams buttercup. Mike Pence in 2024!…
Yes, it’s a shame they didn’t improve on FaceTime before the virus hit, or saw the potential that Zoom was going to be & purchased it. Now Zoom is the standard & left Apple in the dust.
It’s a crying shame that Apple didn’t have you in a Senior VP role calling the shots I guess. Please tell me all knowing one what should Apple be working on as the ‘next big thing’?
“Too bad Apple didn’t have a remote teleconferencing service ready to go long before COVID-19 hit the world. They’ve had the technological knowhow to do a “Good Zoom” for decades now, based on QuickTime, iMessage, and FaceTime, but alas. ”
I feel the same way towards the people who attend the vast multitudes of climate change discussions, meetings, and conferences held each year all over the world or travel via hundreds of private jets each year to Davos to take about how use low-life average planet killing humans need to lower our lifestyles to save the planet.
Opps, typo: Should have wrote: “…to take about how us low-life average…”
True ‘dat.
US lowlife climate change deniers don’t care a fig for the planet or the future prospects of their own offspring. So “My pain beats your gain!”
Like ‘empathy’, you have to be a real human being to feel the pain.
I am extremely impressed with Apple’s work, because such a huge number of employees needed to be transferred to remote work. My sister works at Apple, and during her distance work she managed to start learning new languages using https://www.duolingo.com/