<story><title>How Apple Is Working From Home</title><url>https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-apple-is-working-from-home?pu=hackernewsusoift&amp;utm_source=hackernews&amp;utm_medium=unlock</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>&amp;gt; Most employees aren’t accustomed to holding meetings with colleagues via videoconference and some have found it difficult to use Apple’s own offerings such as FaceTime, iCloud and iMessage, as they weren’t designed for enterprise users, according to current and former employees.&lt;p&gt;Hopefully this motivates them to make these products better!  Although I&amp;#x27;m not super hopeful.&lt;p&gt;I once asked a friend (and Apple employee) why Keynote doesn&amp;#x27;t have any collaboration function.  I said, &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t you guys every collaborate on presentations?&amp;quot;  He said, &amp;quot;No, not really, and if you do, you&amp;#x27;re all in one room and one person is driving the computer&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;So their culture is very much engrained with in person collaboration.&lt;p&gt;Edit:  I should clarify that I asked him this a few years ago, before they added the &amp;quot;collaborate through iCloud&amp;quot; functionality.&lt;p&gt;The point still stands though, that while everyone else had collaboration in their presentation apps, Apple didn&amp;#x27;t, because they didn&amp;#x27;t see the need for it.</text></comment>
<story><title>How Apple Is Working From Home</title><url>https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-apple-is-working-from-home?pu=hackernewsusoift&amp;utm_source=hackernews&amp;utm_medium=unlock</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>castillar76</author><text>Over the years I&amp;#x27;ve had a few conversations with Apple recruiters about job opportunities at Apple. Every time, they&amp;#x27;ve tried to persuade me to move to Cupertino, because Apple doesn&amp;#x27;t do remote work. I&amp;#x27;ve had to start prefacing the conversations with &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m not moving to Cupertino. Do you still want to talk?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I get why Jobs wanted it that way: the value of hallway conversations and the ability to bounce things off other engineers is invaluable, and until recently it was difficult to make that viable with people flung off in different locations. Moreover, it&amp;#x27;s really difficult to have most of your team in one location and a few scattered people elsewhere: the people elsewhere just aren&amp;#x27;t part of the loop in the same way, and it makes things really hard for them.&lt;p&gt;That said, I&amp;#x27;d be surprised if Apple continues with a hard-line stance on that after all of this: I think we&amp;#x27;re seeing that an awful lot of work that people insisted had to be local can indeed be done effectively from remote.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Having read the thread on this one, I apologize for my over-generalization based on anecdote. I work for a company that pushes the ability to remote-work, and the folks I&amp;#x27;ve talked with about working at Apple were all very &amp;quot;yeah, they don&amp;#x27;t do work-from-home&amp;quot;. However, the plural of anecdote is not data. :)</text></comment>