Over the last several months, there have been reports regarding the usually-secretive internal work environment at Apple, ranging from pay equality to remote work and more. A new report from The Information details the efforts to facilitate communication about Apple’s internal work environment, including discussions about pay equity, claims of harassment, remote work, and more – due mainly to Apple’s adoption of Slack amid its response to COVID-19.
Mark Di Stefano and Wayne Ma for The Information:
There was a time when employees at Apple—long one of Silicon Valley’s most secretive companies—wouldn’t dare to speak openly about their employer in public without permission. Often they were too spooked to talk to colleagues in other parts of the company, if they could even figure out who they were.
But in the past few weeks the doors to the Apple kingdom have been partially cracked open with the help of an unlikely tool: Slack…
“Before Slack, it was difficult for employees to talk to somebody who works in retail unless you went to the store,” said Cher Scarlett, a software engineer on Apple’s global security team. “It was impossible to talk to someone who works in hardware as I don’t work with anyone there. You’re giving people a platform that allows them to connect with people they wouldn’t ordinarily connect with.”
There are now 3,000 internal Slack channels at Apple, some with more than 10,000 members, making it far easier for employees to connect with each other and coalesce around common causes. Slack channels for different themes and advocacy groups at Apple quickly began to form, ranging from the mundane such as #announcements, #careers, and #help-desk-support to common interest groups such as #talk-investments and #talk-trading.
Some channels revolve around religious affiliations such as Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Two of the more popular advocacy channels include #remote-work-advocacy and #talk-benefits, both of which boast more than 7,000 members, according to current employees.
MacDailyNews Take: So much for doubling down on secrecy.
Apple you created this monster…fix it.
1. Address the discontent of your people, it’s hypocritical to publicly chastise others when your own house is in disarray.
2. Chatops gone wild…don’t let your collaboration tool become a ‘bitch-room’ manage it better.
3. It’s ironic you didn’t leverage your own Messages and business chat tools for your internal chatops, that speaks volumes.
AMEN!!
Leftists are permanently discontent, you don’t address anything with them, you just kick them out the door.
Yes and the “discontent” is historically verifiable Just find the people/communities rallying around “oppressor/oppressed.”
All humans experience discontent and the feeling of being shorted, but the liberal paradigm and policies they initiate, are often built on their favorite “oppressor/oppressed” (exploitation) schemata.
It would be naive to think such a reality doesn’t exist, but not every one of life’s challenges is because of the other guy/gals oppressiveness. Liberals seem to ignore the fact that life is hard and it not always fair. Kamala’s “Equity” push broadly exemplifies the mindset. It sounds good, like China’s fresh and new “Common Prosperity.” In all such cases, it necessarily “solves” the problem by either lowering a bar, or taking something from someone else. “Fair” for one at another’s expense is a weird idea of fair.
Political people are all in a state of permanent discontent, left or right. If you’re not discontented then you simply aren’t political.
Woe be upon any elected official who wakes up non-political people into becoming activists.
I’m very involved with things political, but I NEVER think, have NEVER thought and I pray I NEVER will expect that what’s in another’s back-pocket is unfairly greater than mine…and I, therefore deserve to have some of it.
Such unfairness, is primarily deemed so by the left and has been for generations. Focusing on the earlier post, it’s what the “equity” pitch is all about and it’s NEVER been advocated by the right. Pitching “equality” is worlds apart.
One cannot argue FOR “equity” without concluding it’s ALWAYS at the expense of someone else. There’s no way around it. So much for “fairness.”
Wasn’t the whole design of the new campus supposed to foster “creative interaction” between employees and “breakdown the silos” between departments providing a “catalytic environment” for “paradigm shattering” ideas and products?
They could have saved themselves a $billion$ just started using Slack.
Now that a woke SJW CEO is leading Apple, the HYPOCRISY cracks are opening wider and multiplying. Cook is having a problem keeping his spaceship employees in an idealist collaborative environment, Apple mission statement “can’t we all get along” is apparently not reality.
Next, Cook authorizing a back door in hardware to spy on customers is a TOTAL BETRAYAL of user privacy Apple PREACHED for decades!!
IMPEACH Cook! No, not possible just get someone in there with a creative spirit that that is not a woke hypocrite capitulating on human rights in China in the holy name of profits…
Impeach this noisy GoeBBels loon, he’s a hatespewer against Cook. Quiet, BoeGGer, you are BoeGGus.
I will not shut up! I am the MAGA man and that means Making Apple Great Again, so Fake CitizensX, you can take your leftist crap, your WokeCook, and shove it!
Apple is wokest of the woke, championing and propagandizing divisive intersectional identity politics. Now they themselves are waist deep in their own radical leftist ideological toilet. Their participation in the American cultural civil war, has helped to deposit us into this moment where we are severely challenged internationally, domestically, economically, and culturally. We have a border crisis, no one is sure who is running the White House and the very survival of our nation is in literally question.
Did they really think they would be immune to their own nonsense?
I dunno but I worry that that last $750 million will make a nice war chest for buying the Presidency.
Don’t worry, be happy!!
All social problems will be magically solved in the hands of God-like SJ warrior, particularly with his UNREAL comfort in his life. He will feel and fully share your problems. Count on him to solve all problems and issues. Then everything will be just fine.
A God-like Steve Jobs warrior is what we need… that’s the only good kind of SJ
Yep…so easy to forget as the news portrays the dismal and is often wrong/lies.
MDN:Your comment section sounds like a Proud Boys for Apple subreddit. Very low brow (“populist”) and really not much to do with Apple. Is it the same 8 posters going around in circles? Can’t they do this on Fox?
So you want MDN to be like Twatter and Facecrack and delete or hide any viewpoint that doesn’t mesh with your warped and wrong globalist, leftist, establishment, big gubmint worldview?
Typical Dem/Lib/Prog anti-freedom, anti-American authoritarian.
Thank God for MDN, the only Apple-centric outlet where people on the right aren’t banned, flagged or censored by leftist control-freaks like at MacRumors and AppleInsider. I’d be thrilled if all the communist commenters took a hike. Their kind politicized everything down to what bathroom and words you can use, called us Nazis for opposing the invasion and dismemberment of the United States and they’re surprised that some sane people (libs among them) said “Hell No!” The more you “otherize” us, the greater the blowback will be and we’re just getting started on this downhill roller coaster tragedy.