[bradknowles]

So, I did a six month consulting gig at Apple Retail Software Engineering.

I knew plenty of Apple employees who couldn’t afford to live closer to the office than way west of San Jose. Many had a ~30 minute commute to the place where they could pick up one of the ubiquitous Apple buses.

From there it was a minimum two to three hour ride to the office, but they had good wifi on the bus, so they could at least get work done while in transit.

Once they got to the office, they would have a meeting or two, or go to lunch, and then hop back on the bus to go back home. Rinse and repeat.

Virtually their entire work day was spent actually on the bus, and not in the actual office.

IMO, Apple could seriously benefit from a lot more people working remotely 100% of the time. I’ve never understood why Tim pushes so hard to force everyone to return to the “office”, when for many the office is actually the bus.

[martindbp]

Well, being stuck in the office or a bus seems pretty similar from the point of view of butts-in-seats management.