[throwawaysea]

> I can’t help but think that the problem for Apple is that they’ve grown so large that they’ve wound up hiring a lot of people who aren’t a good fit for Apple, and that it was a mistake for Apple to ever hook up a company-wide Slack. Companies are not democracies, but the employees writing these letters sure seem to think Apple is one. It’s not, and if it were, the company would sink in a snap.

I do agree with this sentiment, especially when it comes to keeping personal politics out of the office. It can feel distracting, unfair, and suffocating for productive workers to be surrounded by loud, aggressive activists who seemingly don’t care about the company and its mission as much as spending their hours on letters, political discussions, and activist activities. That said I somehow feel differently about the “remote work” topic, maybe because it feels like it directly pertains to work and productivity and employee retention. This article feels a bit too dismissive and verges more on a blind defense of a potential policy misstep.

It seems that Apple already responded and is sticking to its decision per https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/29/22556615/apple-response-h...

[8note]

Employees looking for wfh are suffocating to the productive workers who are just looking to get stuff done, same as any other politics. There's no difference. Where you work is a subset of what you're doing, and the relation ship is for owners to tell you what to do, and for you to do it. The mission of the company is what the owners want, not you.

[pseudalopex]

Your other comment said "Companies are democracies because they need the people involved to do stuff."[1] How can both be true?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27684570