Elon Musk mocks Apple’s return-to-office policy
Elon Musk mocked Apple’s return-to-office coverage on Twitter Wednesday with a meme of an overweight canine taking a nap.
Apple stated it Tuesday was pushing again its requirement that workers work in-person three days per week on account of coronavirus issues. Staff are nonetheless required to return into the workplace twice per week.
In response to a information story about Apple’s transfer, Musk posted a meme Wednesday that appeared to indicate Apple workers are lazy.
“PUT ON GYM CLOTHES,” reads the meme, which contains a image of a fats canine sleeping. “WATCH TV.”
The Submit reported in April that Apple workers had been indignant about CEO Tim Cook dinner’s return to workplace push, with one ranting on-line: “I don’t give a single f—ok about ever coming again to work right here.”
Then in Might, a high government in Apple’s synthetic intelligence division stop over the corporate’s return to workplace coverage. He was scooped up weeks later by Google, which has looser in-person work necessities than Apple.
Musk, who has described himself as a hands-on “nano-manager,” has taken a derisive tone towards distant work.
Days after Musk took a 9% stake in Twitter this April, he advised changing Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters right into a homeless shelter “since nobody reveals up anyway” — a jab on the firm’s unfastened distant work coverage.
Musk has additionally repeatedly taken pictures at Apple, calling its app retailer charges a “30% tax on the web” and parodying a $19 Apple sprucing material.
He has additionally claimed in 2020 that he beforehand tried to strategy Cook dinner about shopping for Tesla — however that Cook dinner refused to take the assembly.
