As computer giant Apple considers bringing employees back to work in person while the COVID-19 pandemic winds down, some of those employees are worried that returning to work in person will make the company less diverse.
“Apple will likely always find people willing to work here, but our current policies requiring everyone to relocate to the office their team happens to be based in, and being in the office at least 3 fixed days of the week, will change the makeup of our workforce,” said an open letter written by employees. “It will make Apple younger, whiter, more male-dominated, more neuro-normative, more able-bodied, in short, it will lead to privileges deciding who can work for Apple, not who’d be the best fit.”
Neurodiversity is a relatively new addition to the far left’s diversity cult, and demands inclusion of people who have atypical neurological development or functioning, like those on the autism spectrum.
The contention of the Apple employees is that returning to work for three days a week in person will not only make the company less neurodiverse, but will make it more white and more male. The employees did not explain how returning to work in person would cause this phenomenon.
But the employees’ complaints did not end there.
“Privileges like ‘being born in the the right place so you don’t have to relocate’, or’ being young enough to start a new life in a new city/country’ or ‘having a stay-at-home spouse who will move with you’,” the letter said. “And privileges like being born into a gender that society doesn’t expect the majority of care-work from, so it’s easy to disappear into an office all day, without doing your fair share of unpaid work in society. Or being rich enough to pay others to do your care-work for you.”
Apple is known for its “wokeness” in the business community, especially its support for Black Lives Matter.
Last year, its CEO Tim Cook promised to ensure that the company would “progress forward on inclusion and diversity, so that every great idea can be heard,” and that it would “challenge racial injustice and mass incarceration.”
Apple could not be reached for comment.
– – –
Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Email tips to [email protected].
Photo “Apple Store” by proshob. CC BY-SA 3.0.
Left eating their own
I am a nurse amd wiped bits, of all colors and spectrums for 45 years
Buckle up buttercup
BLM is a marxist, meaning communist organization organized by Obama and two Marxist trained women, meaning communist trained woman, one an activist who killed a policemen and was given her freedom from jail time for murder by Obama so she could organize and form BLM. BLM’s donations on BLM’s website go to ACTBLUE, the fundraising arm of the democrat party. Now, can you guess why Apple is acting like a communist business instead of a capitalist business. Wokeness will end up closing Apple down because the woke employees will run the business and not the owners and board. Employees are hired to do a job and if there is no physical danger to where they work, that is where they work and with whom they work to, you know, do the job the company is paying them to do. The company is paying them to come back to their work space in buildings Apple owns and have their buildings as Apple’s workspace. If the employee’s are more worried about their work space and whom they work with and not their job than they can leave and work for some other company. Of course, this woke attitude the employees are presenting to Apple is due to Apple allowing their company being infiltrated by woke employees and not employees there for their job, you know, employees with the capitalism consent of being a capitalist employee who gives their employer their day’s work for the paycheck they get. Of course, I wouldn’t work for Apple because I go to work to produce a product the customer will actually buy and use so I can keep a job in a company making enough money to pay me. Than I go home and do my politics on my time just like I do my dance and church time on my time.
The door swings BOTH ways for the benefit of the Apple lefties. Your choice, sports.
This is the world the left has created and Apple is complicit. Now deal with the whiny snowflakes.
Although Apple could just fire anyone not willing to come back but they don’t have the stones for that.
LMAO… So are they saying that only straight white males are the only ones willing to work from the office? If so, what does that say about their workforce in general? Sounds to me like only the straight while males can be depended upon.
If apple caves to these racistis they prove they do not support their own motto.
Last year, its CEO Tim Cook promised to ensure that the company would “progress forward on inclusion and diversity, so that every great idea can be heard,” and that it would “challenge racial injustice and mass incarceration.”
Here it is “” again “” Racist These people just do not want to work. Live off the govrnmt.
This is none sense, as many office worker don’t want to return to their employer’s office’s due to their fears of the high crime rates in many cities where they work.
Dear Apple Employee,
Your resignation is accepted. C;lean out your cubicle and be out of the building in the next two hours.
Thank You,
Normal People
Maybe the brown and black people who don’t like whites should leave this country and go back to their home country. I would love to help them leave the U.S.
In the words of our esteemed yet demented president, “what a bunch of malarky”. How does returning to the workplace make the company less diverse? Are they part of the workforce while telecommuting? Their argument makes no sense and is selfish. Why not just be honest and say you found it cool to work from home and would prefer that be the arrangement going forward. Should Apple reply no, we want you in house then seek other employment if you so desire. Just be honest.
This is the stupidest fabricated reason not to do something, ravings of a lunatic! It is but one of the reasons I’ll never have an Apple product.